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Notable: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez propose limit on credit card interest rates

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez propose limit on credit card interest rates

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pair of leading liberal Democrats proposed legislation on Thursday that would cap interest rates on credit cards and other consumer loans at 15 percent to help consumers grappling with growing credit card debt.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-creditcards/sanders-ocasio-cortez-propose-limit-on-credit-card-interest-rates-idUSKCN1SF1TB?il=0

Notable: Trump nominates Gen. Mark Milley as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Trump nominates Gen. Mark Milley as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff | RT

First chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to serve a single four year term.

If the commies decide to torch the sanctuary cities…

Thank you RT! Best news site for US news!!!

https://www.rt.com/usa/445955-trump-nominate-milley-chief-of-staff/

Notable: Potus welcomes the Red SoCKS (Sox) to the Whitehouse at 3:45

Any of you fags see this?

Potus welcomes the Red SoCKS to the Whitehouse at 3:45

Socks > Sox

CKS X

Notable: NTIA chief David Redl resigns

NTIA chief David Redl resigns

Redl has been at the helm of NTIA, the body tasked with advising the Trump administration's telecom policy within the Department of Commerce, since November 2017.

Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in a statement thanked Redl for his service and wished him "all the best in his future endeavors."

"David Redl is a longtime colleague, who served with distinction during his 18 months at NTIA," Pai said in a statement. "He was a vocal advocate within the Department of Commerce for repurposing federal spectrum for commercial use and fostering the private sector’s lead in 5G deployment. I thank David for his service and wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”

Redl was an adviser to Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) during his tenure as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/442943-ntia-chief-david-redl-resigns

Notable: JW filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for records of the planning & preparation of the raid of the home of former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone

JW filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for records of the planning & preparation of the raid of the home of former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone

Notable: McMaster blasts former colleagues as 'danger to the Constitution'

McMaster blasts former colleagues as 'danger to the Constitution'

WTF?!

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/08/mcmaster-white-house-danger-to-the-constitution-1418268

Notable: Habbening - Doug Collins Set to Release Private Testimony of 53 People Next Week

Habbening - Doug Collins Set to Release Private Testimony of 53 People Next Week

Next may be big. Collins is planning a major dump of testimony.

Jeff Carlson @themarketswork

1) This relates to the 55 transcripts from the House Intelligence Committee's Russia Investigation.

These 55 transcripts are separate from those that have been released thus far.

They were sent to DNI Dan Coats for a declassification review in Oct '18.

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1126531662228013056

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Notable: Pelosi hints at more contempt charges against Trump administration officials

Pelosi hints at more contempt charges against Trump administration officials

Pelosi hints at more contempt charges against Trump administration officials

by Susan Ferrechio

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said the House may vote on a package of contempt charges against the Trump administration in addition to the the contempt citation advanced against Attorney General William Barr by the House Judiciary Committee. “When we are ready we’ll come to the floor because there might be some other contempt of Congress issues we will want to deal with at the same time,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, when asked at a news conference about the timing of House floor consideration of the Barr contempt charge.

Pelosi said she agrees with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who declared the nation is in a constitutional crisis because Congress does not have access to the unredacted Mueller report into Russian election interference. “Yes, I do agree with Chairman Nadler because the administration has decided they are not going to honor their oath of office,” Pelosi said.

The Judiciary panel voted along party lines to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over the unredacted Mueller report, which he is prohibited by law from releasing. Nadler indicated at the hearing the contempt charge was aimed broadly at the Trump administration for refusing to cooperate with several House investigations into his business and family that Democrats are conducting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/pelosi-hints-at-more-contempt-charges-against-trump-administration-officials

Notable: >>6455120 Pentagon and CIA using 'halo of blades' missile designed to kill terrorists but not civilians

Pentagon and CIA using 'halo of blades' missile designed to kill terrorists but not civilians

The Pentagon and CIA have developed a new missile designed to minimize civilian casualties when targeting terrorists. A modified Hellfire missile, it is called the R9X and carries 100 pounds of metal designed to cut through the tops of cars and buildings with "a halo of six long blades" that shred through anything in its path, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The R9X was used to kill Ahmad Hasan Abu Khayr al-Masr, al Qaeda’s second in command, in 2017 and, Jamal al-Badawi, implicated in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, on New Year's Day 2019. Former U.S. officials said they believed the existence of R9X should have been acknowledged years ago to send the message that the U.S. does not want to kill civilians. HUGE news via source.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pentagon-and-cia-use-previously-unknown-missile-designed-to-only-kill-terrorists-not-civilians

Notable: >>6455054, >>6455074, >>6455277 BREAKING: Trump calls for John Kerry to be prosecuted under the Logan Act for collusion with the Iranian government

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1126529672894980096

BREAKING: Trump calls for John Kerry to be prosecuted under the Logan Act for collusion with the Iranian government - @JackPosobiec

Lads, Notable or Fake & Gay?

Notable: >>6455064 Tyson Exec sells stock in midst of second major recall. Tyson Foods expands recall to almost 12 million pounds of chicken strips

Tyson Exec sells stock in midst of second major recall

Tyson Foods expands recall to almost 12 million pounds of chicken strips

Tyson Foods Opens a New Window. is recalling 11.8 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips that may be contaminated with "extraneous materials," including metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said in a press release Opens a New Window. .

The recall Opens a New Window. is an expansion of a previous one in March that included 69,000 pounds of chicken strip products.

The meat producer said it extended the recall after two customers complained that they recently found extraneous materials in their chicken strips. Since March, the FSIS has had six complaints involving metal pieces, with three alleging oral injuries.

The recalled items with the establishment number "P-72221" were produced from October through March 8 with the "used by" dates of Oct. 1, 2019, through March 7, 2020.

The FSIS is urging customers with these products to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase and urged them not to consumer them.

Here are all the products included in the recall.

*Tyson fully cooked crispy chicken strips in 25-ounce and 40-ounce bags;

*Tyson fully cooked Buffalo-style chicken strips in 25-ounce and 40-ounce bags;

*Tyson fully cooked honey BBQ flavored chicken strips in 25-ounce bags;

*Best Choice Buffalo-style chicken strips in 20-ounce bags;

*Great Value fully cooked chicken strips in 25-ounce bags;

*Food Lion crispy chicken strips in 25-ounce bags.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/tyson-foods-recall-12-million-pounds-chicken-strips

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/100493.htm

should be illegal to do this for two reason's:

1. Earnings season

2. Recall issue

Notable: >>6455143 Call to dig on Clinton Foundation, No Ceilings Initiative

>>6454962

Clinton Foundation

No Ceilings Initiative. A list to dig, perhaps.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/press-releases/clinton-foundations-no-ceilings-initiative-unveils-not-there-unprecedented

Notable: North Korean ship used to illicitly transport coal is seized over sanctions violation, US announces - FNC

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1126527666193088512

BREAKING: North Korean ship used to illicitly transport coal is seized over sanctions violation, US announces - FNC

Notable: NXIVM Trial on-goings

Ayla Ferrone takes NXIVM Trial on-goings - really Good Info!

(Audio clip was too big to embed here. It is 17 minutes.)

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I spoke with @PaulVandenburgh about the #NXIVM trial so far this morning on @TALK1300. #ICYMI check out the link below.

https://twitter.com/AylaFerrone/status/1126464315450642432

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Audio embedded in this tweet.

https://twitter.com/TALK1300/status/1126464083191042048

Notable: EU urges Iran to respect nuclear deal, regrets US sanctions

LOCATED KERRY

EU urges Iran to respect nuclear deal, regrets US sanctions

https://wtop.com/europe/2019/05/eu-urges-iran-to-respect-nuclear-deal-regrets-us-sanctions/

Notable: >>6455321 Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill

Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill

A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan veteran has been charged with leaking classified information to the media. Daniel Everett Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested on federal charges Thursday. The reporter that Hale leaked this information to is not named in the indictment, but the charging document identifies him as Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept, an outspoken critic of America’s military activities overseas.

Hale "printed off a series of Secret and Top Secret documents through his position with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, many of which he then provided to the reporter." The day that Hale is alleged to have met with the reporter at the reporter’s bookstore event, April 29, 2013, is the same day Scahill held a discussion and signing for his book Dirty Wars at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. The indictment states that in May 2013 Hale said the reporter “wants me to tell my story about working with drones at the opening screening of his documentary about the war and the use of drones." Scahill’s book accompanied a 2013 documentary of the same name that was critical of secretive U.S. military operations, including drone warfare. The indictment states that Hale again met the reporter at another book event on June 8, 2013 — the same day Scahill was hosted at Busboys & Poets for another discussion about Dirty Wars.

The indictment states that many of the classified documents were disclosed in an October 2015 news article. On Oct.15, 2015, Scahill published an article on the Intercept entitled “The Assassination Complex” and cited “a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. military’s kill/capture operations at a key time in the evolution of the drone wars.” Scahill wrote that the documents “were provided by a source within the intelligence community who worked on the types of operations and programs described in the slides. The Intercept granted the source’s request for anonymity because the materials are classified and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers.”

Hale is charged with crimes, including “obtaining national defense information, retention and transmission of national defense information, causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property.” Each of those charges carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. This is not the first time that the Intercept has been involved in a criminal leaks case. Reality Winner, a military contractor, was arrested in June 2017 for leaking classified information. The NSA document, which she leaked to the Intercept, was related to Russian efforts to hack into U.S. election systems. The Intercept published a story based on the document and was criticized for failing to protect Winner as a source. Betsy Reed, the Intercept’s editor-in-chief, eventually admitted that “at several points in the editorial process, our practices fell short of the standards to which we hold ourselves for minimizing the risks of source exposure when handling anonymously provided materials.” In August 2018, Winner was sentenced to over five years in prison.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intelligence-analyst-charged-with-leaking-top-secret-information-to-left-wing-reporter-jeremy-scahill

Daniel Hale Indictment

https://www.scribd.com/document/409318747/Daniel-Hale-Indictment#from_embed

Notable: Seven banks face EU antitrust fines for forex rigging

Seven banks face EU antitrust fines for forex rigging: sources

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, JPMorgan and three other banks are set to be fined by EU antitrust regulators in the coming weeks for rigging the multitrillion dollar foreign exchange market, two people familiar with the matter said.

The other three lenders are Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS and a small Japanese bank, the people said. The banks will see a 10 percent cut in their fines for admitting wrongdoing.

In contrast, Credit Suisse, which has previously said it did not find any evidence of misconduct, is fighting the EU antitrust charge. It is not clear if the European Commission will be able to finalize the case in time to levy a fine against the Swiss bank in the coming weeks.

The EU antitrust enforcer, which has been investigating the case over the last six years and could hand out fines up to 10 percent of a company’s global turnover for breaching EU rules, declined to comment.

Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Scotland declined to comment. HSBC had no immediate comment.

It is possible the EU could space out its rulings against the banks over several weeks rather than lump them together in one day, the people said.

Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS have entered related guilty pleas in a U.S. case, and been collectively fined more than $2.8 billion.

U.S. regulators said the foreign exchange rate rigging was allegedly done through chat rooms with such names as “The Cartel,” “The Mafia” and “The Bandits’ Club,” through tactics with such names as “front running,” “banging the close,” “painting the screen” and “taking out the filth.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust-banks/seven-banks-face-eu-antitrust-fines-for-forex-rigging-sources-idUSKCN1SF1VJ?il=0

Notable: Killary twat w/CAP

@HillaryClinton

Thank you to all the students at @dartmouth for their thoughtful questions yesterday on everything from Iran and China to AI and the place of social media in our news environment. This generation doesn’t miss a beat.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1126523769831477248

Notable: Trump Administration to require drug companies to list drug prices in advertising.

Trump Administration to require drug companies to list drug prices in advertising.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/trump-administration-requires-big-pharma-to-list-drug-prices-in-tv-ads/

THIS IS HUGE!

Anything over $35/month must be stated in both list price and expected out of pocket price.

E.g. Harvoni - new antiviral for hep c which they are advertising left and right on TV because about 10% of boomers have hep c.

it costs almost $95,000 for a 11 week treatment - yes

NINETY FIVE THOUSAND

and doctors prescribe it like it is nothing

so expensive - no pharmacies will carry it unless paid up front

I spent decades in pharmacy and big pharma research

No lie

HUGE

sorry to be so enthusiastic and all but seriously

HUGE!!!

t.pharmanon

Notable: Rep. Jerry Nadler on Mueller: "We will subpoena him if we have to."

From late last bread.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1126517433034928130

Notable: Who Were the Mueller Report's Hired Guns? (Fusion GPS)?

Did Mueller Hire Contractors (Fusion GPS) to Investigate and Write His Report?

Holy shit. This could be huge. It's possible Mueller was using Fusion GPS and Steele to investigate and write the final report. Even deputized them.

By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations

May 9, 2019

Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. While it’s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, Mueller also hired contractors to compile “investigative reports” and other “information."

The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsel’s office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion dossier for the Clinton campaign.

They suspect the dossier creators may have been involved in Mueller’s operation – and even had a hand in his final report – because the special counsel sent his team to London to meet with Steele within a few months of taking over the Russia collusion investigation in 2017. Also, Mueller’s lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, had shared information he received from Fusion with the media.

…

Several law enforcement and Hill sources who spoke with RCI also believe Steele and Fusion GPS were deputized in the investigation.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/05/08/who_were_the_mueller_reports_hired_guns.html

Notable: >>6454381 anons dig on HRC asking Huma to print without classification identifiers

HRC asking Huma to print without classification identifiers

Notable: Raytheon Shoots Down Multiple Drones With Directed Laser Weapon

Raytheon Shoots Down Multiple Drones With Directed Laser Weapon

Raytheon Company has successfully shot down multiple drones using its advanced high powered microwave (HPM) and mobile high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems, stated the company press release Tuesday.

The directed-energy weapon system was paired with Raytheon's Multi-spectral Targeting System, using sensors that directed microwaves and lasers to blast enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) out of the sky during a field training exercise. Mounted on a Polaris MRZR 4 all-terrain vehicle, the system was extremely portable and could traverse almost any terrain.

"Countering the drone threat requires diverse solutions," said Stefan Baur, Raytheon Electronic Warfare Systems vice president. "HEL and HPM give frontline operators options for protecting critical infrastructure, convoys and personnel."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-03/raytheon-shoots-down-multiple-drones-directed-laser-weapon

Notable: Secretary Pompeo Postpones Travel to Greenland

Secretary Pompeo Postpones Travel to Greenland

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/05/291567.htm

Notable: Amazon accused of using Echo Dot Kids to illegally collect data on children

Amazon accused of using Echo Dot Kids to illegally collect data on children

A coalition of 19 consumer and privacy groups plans to file a complaint Thursday alleging that Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition is illegally collecting voice recordings and other identifying information on users under 13 and that the system’s parental controls are flawed. The complaint says that the Echo Dot Kids Edition – a colorful, youth-oriented version of Amazon’s popular “smart speaker” systems that allow users to ask questions, play music or control thermostats with voice commands – violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA. The 1998 law sharply limits what data companies can collect without permission from parents.

The 98-page complaint is the latest in a series by consumer and privacy groups urging the Federal Trade Commission to intensify its enforcement of how leading technology companies treat children and their personal data. The Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center served as counsel to the groups on the complaint. Unlike some previous cases, there is little dispute that Amazon’s device, which has a sticker price of about $70 but sometimes is offered for less, should be covered by COPPA. The sign-on procedure mentions the law and requests parental permission for collecting data from children.

But a draft of the complaint cites a number of alleged failings, including that the permissions need to be more specific and that the online portal lacks an effective system for verifying that a parent is the one providing approval for a child’s use of the device. The complaint also alleges that Amazon keeps children’s voice recordings longer than necessary and that the tools allowing parents to delete recordings do not work properly. The result, according to a draft of the complaint, is that Amazon could collect a wide range of information from children – names, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers – without parents knowing or being able to delete it. The complaint also says that the Echo Dot Kids Edition allows outside developers, whose “skills” on the service resemble the apps familiar to users of mobile devices, to collect data in ways that lack transparency and potentially violate COPPA. Amazon spokeswoman Kinley Pearsall said the Echo Dot Kids Edition is “compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,” but her statement did not address any of the specific issues raised in the complaint.

The FTC, which declined to comment on the planned complaint against Amazon, has settled 30 cases against companies for allegedly violating COPPA over the past two decades. The commission also updated the rules governing compliance in 2013 to impose restrictions on the collection of newer technologies, such as online voice and video clips, that could identify children under 13. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., one of the original authors of COPPA, plans to send a letter Thursday to the FTC urging action regarding the Echo Dot Kids Edition. “Children are a uniquely vulnerable population,” Markey planned to write, according to a draft of the letter. “We urge the Commission to take all necessary steps to ensure their privacy.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/08/amazon-accused-of-using-echo-dot-kids-to-illegally-collect-data-on-children/

Notable: Filmmaker to Testify Against Accused Head of New York Sex Cult

A filmmaker who spent 12 years in a secretive New York group that prosecutors say evolved into a sex cult is set to testify for a second day on Thursday against its former leader who faces charges that include sex trafficking.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2019-05-09/jury-to-hear-from-whistleblower-in-new-york-sex-cult-trial

Notable: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg is too powerful and the government should force the 'dangerous' social network to break up

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7010553/Facebook-founder-Chris-Hughes-says-Mark-Zuckerberg-powerful.html

Notable: The Hill runs hit piece on 'QAnon' (video)

New Qanon hit piece

QAnon spoils school fundraiser via

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/442885-qanon-spoils-school-fundraiser

Notable: BASED: Students walk out of Colorado school shooting vigil, saying their trauma was being politicized

Students walk out of Colorado school shooting vigil, saying their trauma was being politicized

Sauce: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/09/colorado-school-shooting-vigil-students-walk-out-protest/1150282001/

Notable: OPEC in the dark on oil supply as Russia, Iran cut exports

OPEC in the dark on oil supply as Russia, Iran cut exports

DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC is in the dark on the oil supply outlook for the second half of this year, with Iranian and Russian outages looking increasingly significant but Saudi Arabia reluctant to pump more due to fears of a price crash, sources in the organization said.

An oil contamination forced Russia to halt flows along the Druzhba pipeline, a key conduit for crude into Eastern Europe and Germany, in April. The suspension left refiners scrambling to find supplies and its duration is unclear.

Iran’s oil exports are likely to drop further in May as the United States tightens the screw on Tehran’s main source of income. Shipments from Venezuela, also under U.S. sanctions, could fall more in coming weeks.

The dearth of information is a headache for OPEC and allies led by Russia, which gather in June to decide whether to renew a supply-cutting deal. A panel of ministers meets on May 19 in Saudi Arabia to discuss the market and make recommendations.

Two delegates from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said the Russian outage, on top of Iranian and Venezuelan export losses, would be discussed at the Jeddah meeting and it seemed more than a short-term technical glitch.

“It’s potentially significant,” one of the delegates said of the pipeline halt.

Still, the delegate added, the price of Brent crude - close to $70 a barrel, down from a 2019 high of $75.60 last month - suggested traders saw no major risk of any shortage.

Other OPEC sources said there were conflicting views on the significance of the Russian outage, and that the complexity of Russia’s pipeline system meant the issue was not straightforward.

“I’m not quite seeing the impact in terms of supply shortage,” another OPEC delegate said.

SUPPLY DROP

Analysts at Citigroup saw the Russian export loss as enough to affect the balance between supply and demand.

“While it is still difficult to assess the final impacts on balances, the severity of the problem could mean up to 400,000 bpd (barrels per day) of Russian exports could be pulled out of the market for longer than earlier anticipated,” they wrote.

That would further tighten the market, with OPEC signaling even before the Druzhba outage that demand would exceed supply by more than 800,000 bpd in the third quarter.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec/opec-in-the-dark-on-oil-supply-as-russia-iran-cut-exports-idUSKCN1SF1LV?il=0

and nothing to do with the $12b in bond's shoved out the door for aramco either

Notable: Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content in second half 2018

Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content in second half 2018

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Twitter is making headway in tackling online terrorism content on its platform as it suspended over 166,000 accounts in the second half of last year, about a fifth less than in the previous period, the social media company said on Thursday. Together with Facebook and Google, Twitter is under pressure from regulators and governments worldwide to remove extremist content more rapidly or face more heavy-handed legislation.

Announcing its latest transparency report, the company said its technical tools were producing results, with 91 percent of accounts promoting terrorism content proactively suspended by its internal technology, the majority of which happened before their first tweet because the data used to set them up raised red flags. Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts between July and December last for promoting terrorism, a 19 percent drop from the 205,156 accounts suspended in the previous six months.

“This sharp decrease is indicative of a larger trend we are now observing — year-on-year the numbers of terrorist organizations attempting to use our service is reducing,” Sinead McSweeney, Twitter’s vice president for public policy said in a statement. “This can be attributed to a robust technical approach that we’ve enhanced over many years. We are encouraged by these metrics but will remain vigilant,” she said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-suspended-166153-accounts-for-terrorism-content-in-second-half-2018-idUSKCN1SF1LN?il=0

Notable: Swedish prosecutor to give decision on Assange rape investigation on Monday

Swedish prosecutor to give decision on Assange rape investigation on Monday

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden’s state prosecutor will announce next Monday whether or not she will reopen a preliminary investigation into a rape allegation against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. “At (a) press conference, the prosecutor will announce her decision, which will formally be made immediately before the press conference,” the Prosecution Authority said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden/swedish-prosecutor-to-give-decision-on-assange-rape-investigation-on-monday-idUSKCN1SF1MA?il=0

Notable: Universities nationwide remove historical artwork deemed offensive

>>6453902

TRENDING: Universities nationwide remove historical artwork deemed offensive

https://www.thecollegefix.com/trending-universities-nationwide-remove-historical-artwork-deemed-offensive/

Some of you maybe aware of Benjamin Banneker's historic letter to Thomas Jefferson on August 19, 1791, arguing eloquently that "…however variable we may be in Society or religion, however, diversifyed in Situation or colour, we are all of the Same Family, and Stand in the Same relation to him [God]."

I wonder if any of you have ever read Jefferson's response? I had not until last night when I discovered it by accident. I was looking for a book for my son on my bookshelf and I stumbled across an old library book titled "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson." I then remembered that I had bought it for $1 at a local library give away some years ago. By chance, I happened to open the book to page 932 and there it was. I then did a google search to find it online so that I wouldn't have to retype it for this post.

The search results shocked me, but were informative. Page after page of high school and college course assignments all about Banneker's historic letter to Jefferson and how he cleverly employed rhetorical strategies to prove Jefferson to be a "hypocrite." But none of these sites ever mentioned Jefferson's response.

After refining my search, I finally found it.

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/benjamin-banneker

In his reply to Banneker on August 30, Jefferson wrote,

"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black bretheren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa and America…I have taken the liberty of sending your almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet…because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them."2

The same day, Jefferson wrote to the Marquis de Condorcet:

"I am happy to be able to inform you that we have now in the United States a negro, the son of a black man born in Africa, and of a black woman born in the United States, who is a very respectable Mathematician. I procured him to be employed under one of our chief directors in laying out the new federal city on the Patowmac, and in the intervals of his leisure, while on that work, he made an Almanac for the next year, which he sent me in his own handwriting, and which I enclose to you. I have seen very elegant solutions of Geometrical problems by him. Add to this that he is a very worthy and respectable member of society. He is a free man."3

It should go without saying that it saddens me deeply on behalf of all peoples that young Americans, comprising the "1%" of those most free and privileged on our planet, the vast majority of which who have never read any of Jefferson's writings, including the most sacred of all, the Declaration of Independence, are so possessed and deluded by destructive ideology that they are actively calling for the destruction of his statues and memorials.

What is even less known among our youth is that Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence was revised by the Continental Congress to eliminate the justifiable attack on King George for encouraging the slave trade…(see image)

Jefferson knew that such compromises with principle struck at the heart of the nation’s security and integrity. In 1820, six years before his death, he wrote these melancholy words:

"But this momentous question (slavery), like a fire bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776 to acquire self-government and happiness to their country is to be thrown away, and my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it."

What is indisputable is that this "slave owner" penned words of Truth so powerful that it laid the foundation for liberty worldwide, not only for African Americans, but for countless other oppressed peoples around the world, many of which who came here with nothing, worked hard to learn our language and history, so that they too could be known as "Americans."

We all need to come together as Americans now more than ever before and stand united against those malevolent forces which seek to divide and destroy us.

Notable: Epstein continuing illegal construction on Great St. James despite stop-work order, threat of fines

Epstein continuing illegal construction on Great St. James despite stop-work order, threat of fines

Multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been forging ahead with building activity on the island of Great St. James, flouting efforts by the V.I. government to force him to comply with the territory’s environmental protection laws.

Jean-Pierre Oriol, commissioner nominee for the V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources, said Tuesday that the department’s division of Coastal Zone Management issued Epstein a stop-work order on Dec. 21.

Despite that order, construction activity on the island has been ongoing and includes “an excessive amount of additional roadways that have been carved out on the island, there have been two jetties, fill material has been placed into the submerged lands, so there’s evidence of work going beyond what was initially applied for. The exact amount of things is still yet to be determined,” Oriol said.

Oriol said the department, which regulates building activity in environmentally sensitive areas and issues permits for planned construction, is limited in its ability to make Epstein stop violating the territory’s laws.

FULL ARTICLE SOURCE

https://outline.com/f2Y6fC

Notable: No Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans Publicly Stand Up for Richard Burr’s Rogue Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena

No Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans Publicly Stand Up for Richard Burr’s Rogue Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena

What the heck is Sen. Richard Burr's deal? He hardly seems to fit the template of your typical backstabbing RINO.

Even if the Trump Jr. subpoena is some kind of trap being set, it's hard to see how the optics would work out favorably as a result of "bipartisan support" for this nonsense. I'm guessing the cabal must have some kind of leverage over him.

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Not one GOP senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee was willing to publicly align himself or herself on Wednesday evening with the panel’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), after Burr made the determination, against indications from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to issue a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. to testify again on the Russia probe.

News broke late Wednesday afternoon that Burr had issued Trump, Jr. a subpoena to try to compel the president’s eldest son to testify again. The subpoena is in contravention of a previous promise Burr made to Trump, Jr. that he would only need to testify once and would not be subpoenaed, and it contradicts McConnell’s edict on Tuesday that the Russia hoax is “case closed” after two years of investigating with no evidence of collusion or obstruction.

Condemnation rained down upon Burr quickly and swiftly from across the Republican Party, as Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy both ripped him for the subpoena, as did Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, who served as chair for the first two years of Trump’s presidency, as well as many others in the Trump universe.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/no-senate-intelligence-committee-republicans-publicly-stand-up-for-richard-burrs-rogue-donald-trump-jr-subpoena/

Notable: Amazon Hit By "Serious" Hack, Resulting In "Extensive" Fraud, Cash Stolen From Merchants

Amazon Hit By "Serious" Hack, Resulting In "Extensive" Fraud, Cash Stolen From Merchants

We recently documented how Amazon has come under fire from its merchants for allegedly trying to undercut them on pricing and products. Now, the e-commerce giant is under scrutiny for a different reason: security. Amazon is now saying it was hit by an "extensive" fraud last year, revealing in court documents that hackers were able to transfer funds from merchant accounts over the course of six months, according to Bloomberg.

The "serious" online attack included hackers breaking into about 100 seller accounts and moving cash from loans or sales into their own bank accounts. The hack took place between May 2018 and October 2018, according to Amazon’s lawyers.

Amazon said it was still looking into the compromised accounts and that it believed hackers changed the details on its Seller Central platform to bank accounts in their name. Amazon believes that the accounts were compromised by phishing techniques that looked for login information. Amazon has reportedly concluded its investigation of the incident.

Lawyers for the online retailer asked a judge in London to approve searches of account statements at Barclays and Prepay, two banks that "have become innocently mixed up in the wrongdoing." Amazon says that it needed the documents “to investigate the fraud, identify and pursue the wrongdoers, locate the whereabouts of misappropriated funds, bring the fraud to an end and deter future wrongdoing."

The filing doesn’t denote how the suspected wrongdoers were able to add new bank account information to merchant accounts. Amazon has issued more than $1 billion in loans to merchants and one of the units named in the filing was Amazon Capital Services U.K., a division of the company responsible for making these loans.

The dollar amount stolen by the hackers has not been disclosed but the incident could mark the latest in a series of incidents that may deter merchants from using Amazon to sell goods. In an April report, we detailed how Amazon merchants were feeling more and more like they were on the wrong end of a lopsided deal with the company, which has been selling its own brand of "Basics" that often undercut its own merchants.

One vendor interviewed, Jason Boyce, has been wary of regulation as small business owner. Despite this, he was willing to consider proposed regulations by Senator Elizabeth Warren that would prevent Amazon from competing against its merchants. Boyce said: “If you’re going to have a marketplace, you shouldn’t be able to piggyback off the hard work and labor of your sellers to beat them.”

“Amazon crushes small companies by copying the goods they sell on the Amazon Marketplace and then selling its own branded version,” Senator Warren has previously said.

Boyce, a former Marine Corps officer, started selling his product - basketball hoops - online in 2002. In 2004, he got a call from Amazon who said that they "liked" his products and he began to list them on the site. But over the next few years, his experience on Amazon resulted in competitors entering in the market and pushing down prices. So, like a good businessman, he pivoted to other products, developing his own line of foosball tables, air hockey tables, bocce ball sets and exercise equipment.

Then, in 2009, Amazon started selling its own products, Amazon Basics. Among its offerings, Amazon started selling bocce ball sets that cost $15 less than Boyce’s, and giving them ideal page space to win the shopper looking for the lowest price.

“They’re pulling market share away from us and our competitors as well,” Boyce said. Now, it appears merchants are having their money pulled from them, too.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-09/amazon-hit-serious-hack-resulting-extensive-fraud-cash-stolen-merchants

Notable: DoD twat - "Climb over your mid-day slump!"

Climb over your mid-day slump!🏃‍♂️

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1126426583772712961

Notable: Anon charts "Change to Offense" in May

Sharing a visual conception focused on Q3331, mapping the month of May’s implied reversal of direction, going from defense to offense.

Captures the following ideas:

(a) POTUS trolling by having 2 “FFs” happen before the intended “narrative shift”.

(b) POTUS’ increase in the month of May of retweets, heavily pointing to the visual element of the retweet symbol – reversal.

(c) A cluster of Tweets by POTUS in May that reference reversal or change of direction.

(d) Alteration of standard practice of POTUS chronologically tweeting 2 part Tweets to begin tweeting the parts in reverse chronological sequence.

(e) POTUS referencing “monitoring” and “watching closely” to tip off anons to the visual element of his actions as well as hinting at Tweet structure significance by saying he will “take a hard look” at “infrastructure”.

Attached image is sizeable; try MS Paint to display if legibility issues.

Majority of the populace in anon's foreign nation have a derisive opinion of President Trump, but the evidence suggests the man and his team are clearly fuggin’ inventive geniuses.

Notable: EU will not accept ultimatums - remains committed to Iran nuclear deal

http://archive.is/ZtClY

EU rejects any ultimatums after Iran's move on nuclear deal

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union and the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain on Thursday said they were still committed to the Iran nuclear deal but would not accept ultimatums after Iran announced it was scaling back curbs to its nuclear program.

After Tehran’s announcement and threat to take more action that could violate the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new sanctions on Iran, targeting revues from exports of its industrial metals.

“We reject any ultimatums and we will assess Iran’s compliance on the basis of Iran’s performance regarding its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA and the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons),” the statement read, with JCPOA referring to the Iran nuclear deal.

They said they regretted the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States and added that they remained committed to preserving and fully implementing the Iran nuclear deal.

“We are determined to continue pursuing efforts to enable the continuation of legitimate trade with Iran,” said the European states, adding that included getting a special purpose vehicle aimed at enabling business with Iran off the ground.

A year ago, Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal signed by Iran, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and the United States.

The accord relaxed international sanctions on Iran in return for Tehran accepting curbs on its nuclear program that were designed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran has said it pursued only a peaceful nuclear program

Notable: Fast and Furious Settlement entered into DC Court

‘Fast And Furious’ Settlement Entered Into DC Court

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Hours after House Judiciary Committee Democrats voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress for withholding parts of the Mueller report, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the House Oversight Committee settled the 2012 contempt case against the DOJ. The case, related to the “Fast and Furious” document subpoena demanded of Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder when Republicans held the majority, is now considered settled, since Democrats became the majority in the lower chamber and Elijah Cummings became Oversight Committee Chairman.

According to court documents, settlement negotiations first began January 2017 during the 115th Congress. By March 7, 2018, the Justice Department and the Oversight Committee signed a conditional settlement agreement with certain conditions, which included that the court would vacate certain rulings at issue on remand. However, the court ruled last October that it would not vacate the rulings. Following a subsequent lapse in appropriations for the DOJ and the election of Cummings as Chair, “the parties resumed settlement negotiations in early February 2019. The parties informed this Court on April 4, 2019, that they had ‘made substantial progress towards a negotiated solution.’”

The settlement agreement includes that the Oversight Committee “will take all necessary steps to voluntarily dismiss its appeal with prejudice in Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives v. Barr, No. 16-5078 (D.C. Cir.), marking the termination of all civil litigation between the parties arising out of the complaint filed by the Committee…”

The case with which Holder was charged with contempt by the House sprung from a botched federal gun-tracking program that came to light in 2010. Known as “Operation Fast and Furious” by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the gun-walking program came out of the Arizona field office. Federal investigators set the program up so licensed firearms dealers could sell guns to illegal straw purchasers and the U.S. government could track the firearms to Mexican cartel leaders, arrest them and dismantle their operations.

However, in 2010 it came to light that the guns that ATF was supposed to track turned up at Mexican crime scenes where vicious murders took place and at the site where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was slain by Mexican gang members in December of that year.

Holder was charged by the House with two separate contempt resolutions—criminal and civil—for withholding documents related to the Fast and Furious case. The criminal contempt charge was never prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney in D.C., as he served at the pleasure of Holder at the time. The civil charge, though, was a different matter and remained litigated in the court for the past seven years. The charges against Holder also stemmed from his testimony before Congress, when he claimed he was unaware of the operation until a few weeks before he came to testify. However, leaked documents from the Justice Department showed that he was informed of the matter for months.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/fast-and-furious-settlement-dc-court/

Notable: Reminder - John Brennan's history as traitor and Hussein/No Name/HRC passport connection

Got sidetracked and stumbled on this:

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Happy Hunting!

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John Brennan- TRAITOR

excerpt fom archives (pb) >>5793275

Brennan became deputy executive director of the CIA in March 2001. In about 2005, about the time that the bankers were interviewing Obama as presidential material, Brennan left government service and became the Chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and the CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) now known as Sotera Defense Solutions, quite conceivably a CIA front. At the same time, Brennan began working with the Obama 2008 presidential campaign as Obama's top intelligence adviser.

In March 2008, officials cited The Analysis Corporation for penetrating the files of presidential candidates Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain in the State Department's passport office. Investigators maintain that the target of this illegal activity was Obama's passport file for the sole purpose of cleansing the records of information that would jeopardize his candidacy.

Notable: Denver Students storm out of vigil for shooting victims B/C antigun BS

THIS IS AWESOME.

The Dem politicians tried to use the school shooting vigil in order to spew their antigun BS. Some of the students decided they were not going to play the dems and media's games.

What kind of assholes would allow these politicians to use a vigil as a platform/stage to further their crazy agenda?

That seems like the only reason why they cared or even bothered to attend.

That is really to use this tragedy in such a sick way( for political gain)

The people/ even kids are waking up to the dems and msms's bullshit.

SO PROUD OF THESE STUDENTS, GOD BLESS THEM.

Bennet is a POS SCUMBAG

Also, how fucked up is it , to not allow the very students the vigil is for, to have a chance to speak.

THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK, AND PEOPLE ARE SEEING IT.

Students storm out of vigil for Denver school shooting victims chanting 'mental health' in protest at groups 'politicizing' their grief after speeches by pro-gun control lawmakers

Vigil for victims of Denver school shooting turned into protest Wednesday night

Pro-gun control student group at neighboring school had organized the event and invited Democrat politicians to speak

But STEM High School students became angry when they were denied the microphone and stormed out, chanting 'mental health'

They eventually returned and accused politicians of exploiting their tragedy

An emotional vigil for one student who was killed and the eight who were wounded during the Denver school shooting turned into an angry protest Wednesday night.

The vigil, held at Highlands Ranch High School, which is close to the tragic STEM School Highlands Ranch, was organized by student gun control group Team Enough.

Democrat congressmen Michael Bennet and Jason Crow were invited to speak, while STEM students were invited to attend the vigil - one of two that took place yesterday.

But, as the political speeches wore on, STEM students became frustrated that they had not been allowed to take the microphone and stormed out

The students paraded out of the venue holding up lighted cellphones, chanting 'mental health' and shouting expletives at the media.

They eventually made their way back into the gym where students were allowed to take the microphone and get their message across

'What has happened at STEM is awful. But it’s not a statistic. We can’t be used as a reason for gun control. We are people not a statement,' one said in footage broadcast by KUSA.

Another added: 'We wanted Kendrick to be mourned. We wanted all of you to join us in that mourning, but that was not allowed here. We all walked out. We were not kicked out.'

Tuesday's shooting was the 11th on an American campus so far this year and the fourth in Colorado since Columbine.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7006093/The-Latest-Students-used-2-handguns-Colorado-shooting.html

The last pic( guy with white beard is)

Colorado State Rep Tom Sullivan, D-Aurora, center, applauds for speakers during the vigil

Other 2 people is Sen Michael Bennet( blue polka dot tie) and Rep Jason Crow ( red tie)

Notable: Maxine Waters seeks to weigh in on BB&T/Sun Trust Merger

Maxine Waters seeks to weigh in on BB&T, SunTrust merger

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters is seeking for her committee to have its own say in a major planned bank merger. The California Democrat asked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams Wednesday to defer approval of the proposed merger between BB&T Bank and SunTrust Bank until her committee can hold hearings on the subject. If the merger goes through, it would result in the eighth largest bank in the country by total assets.

“[T]he proposed merger warrants serious scrutiny from Congress,” Waters wrote in a letter to the regulators. “This is especially true given the rubber-stamping bank merger applications receive from regulators demonstrated by the recent data regarding the Federal Reserve’s reviews."

Waters raised the fear that the merger would harm community banks, black farmers, and lead to layoffs and branch closures. The Fed and FDIC conducted two public hearings, one in Charlotte, N.C., the other in Atlanta, Ga., and are accepting public comments on the merger. If the merger receives regulatory approval and moves forward, the combined bank would control over $440 billion in total assets.

Congressional Democrats have accused bank regulators of rubber-stamping bank mergers, an accusation Powell has pushed back on. In a 2018 letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Powell acknowledged bank regulators rejected only three of the 3,819 bank merger applications it received between 2006 and the end of 2017. But Powell also noted that 503 additional applications were withdrawn by banks before the Fed made a formal decision on the application, implying that most or all of those applications would have been rejected. Waters asked for a written response to her letter by May 15. The committee has a hearing on how regulators oversee large banks and other depository institutions scheduled for May 16.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/maxine-waters-seeks-to-weigh-in-on-bb-t-suntrust-merger

Notable: Clockfag checks in on "Media Cleanse"

May 8th 2019 lines up on the :37 mark across to :07 and Feb 12th 2018.

"The media cleanse"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-has-revoked-my-press-pass-its-not-just-me–its-curtailing-access-for-all-journalists/2019/05/08/bb9794b4-71c0-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html?utm_term=.e7e6cdf7291f

Notable: Kennedys write pro-vaccine op-ed to counter RFK Jr.'s anti-vax

Kennedys write pro-vaccine op-ed to counter RFK Jr.'s advocacy

May 8 (UPI) – The debate over vaccines has driven a wedge through the Kennedys, with several prominent family members writing an op-ed blasting Robert Kennedy Jr. for his anti-vaccination views. Robert Kennedy Jr. has been an outspoken critic of vaccinations, prompting Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Maeve Kennedy McKean to write an op-ed in Politico saying he is wrong. McKean, executive director of Georgetown University's Global Health Initiatives, is Kennedy's niece, while Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former congressman, are his siblings.

"We love Bobby. He is one of the great champions of the environment," the Kennedys wrote. "We stand behind him in his ongoing fight to protect our environment. However, on vaccines he is wrong. And his and others' work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences."

More than 700 cases of measles have been reported in the United States in 2019. In Maine, there were 41 new cases of whooping cough, another disease that had been largely eradicated. The problem is, the Kennedys said, many patients are more afraid of the vaccine than the disease itself. "Americans have every right to be alarmed about the outbreak of measles in pockets of our country with unusually high rates of unvaccinated citizens, especially children," the Kennedys wrote. "Right now, officials in 22 states are grappling with a resurgence of the disease, which was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000."

An estimated 170 million children worldwide haven't been vaccinated over the last decade, the United Nations children's agency estimated. The biggest reason is the anti-vaccine movement, a UNICEF report said. "The ground for the global measles outbreaks we are witnessing today was laid years ago," UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. "The measles virus will always find unvaccinated children. If we are serious about averting the spread of this dangerous but preventable disease, we need to vaccinate every child, in rich and poor countries alike." Vaccines are eliminating a wide range of other diseases, including mumps, rubella, hepatitis, tetanus, influenza and HPV.

President John F. Kennedy signed the Vaccination Assistance Act in 1962 to eliminate diseases in preschool-age children. Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy were both champions of healthcare and community health centers. "Those who delay or refuse vaccinations, or encourage others to do so, put themselves and others, especially children, at risk," the Kennedys wrote. "It is in all our interests to make sure that immunizations reach every child on the globe through safe, effective and affordable vaccines."

Two Los Angeles area universities went into quarantine last month because of measles cases. The crowdfunding site Indiegogo banned anti-vaccine fundraisers in April. A scientology cruise ship with 300 people on board was quarantined in the Caribbean Sea after a positive case of measles last week.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/05/08/Kennedys-write-pro-vaccine-op-ed-to-counter-

Notable: Sri Lanka: U.S. official injured in Easter Sunday bombings has died

Sri Lanka: U.S. official injured in Easter Sunday bombings has died

May 9 (UPI) – A United States official seriously injured in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka died this week, officials said. Chelsea Decaminada, an international program specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Sri Lanka on assignment, died Monday as a result of injuries sustained during the April 21 suicide bomb attacks on three hotels and three Christian churches throughout the country, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina Teplitz confirmed Wednesday.

"We mourn the loss of Chelsea Decaminada, who succumbed after a valiant fight to injuries from the attacks," Teplitz said in a tweet. "Our prayers are with her family. We pay tribute to Chelsea – and all those lost and injured – by partnering with Sri Lanka and nations worldwide to bring unity in the face of terrorism."

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross was the first to announce her death Tuesday, saying on Twitter, "it was our great hope that Chelsea would recover from her injuries." In a statement, Ross said Decaminada was a talented program specialist in the Department of Commerce's law development program. "Chelsea devoted her life to public service and her dedication and spirit were a model for all of us at Commerce," he said. "She served her country with distinction." He said as they mourn her death they will continue to fight terrorism.

She is the second person from the Washington D.C. area to die in the suicide bombing attack that the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for but has been attributed to terrorist organization National Thawheed Jammath. Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, a fifth-grade student at Sidwell Friends School, was on leave to study in Sri Lanka, his mother's native home, when he died in the blasts, NBC News reported. The 11-year-old was eating breakfast at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo when it was attacked by a suicide bomber. UNICEF said at least 45 children were killed in the attacks. Sri Lankan authorities have said all responsible for the attacks have either been arrested or killed. More than 250 people, including 45 foreigners, were killed in the attacks.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/05/09/Sri-Lanka-US-official-injured-in-Easter-Sunday-bombings-has-died/2351557382723/

Notable: Agents seize more than 1,000 guns from home in upscale Holmby Hills, CA

Agents Seize More Than 1,000 Guns From Home in Upscale LA Neighborhood, Holmby Hills

More than 1,000 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found early on May 8 at a home in one of the most exclusive upscale neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Holmby Hills. Dramatic aerial footage shows a massive collection of weapons scattered out on what appears to be blankets in the property’s driveway, as police take inventory. One man, whose name has yet to be released, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful transportation, and of giving, lending, or selling an assault weapon, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said, according to the Los Angeles Times. He is expected to be booked, authorities said. The raid occurred around 4 a.m in the 100 block of North Beverly Glen Boulevard.

Police also found firearm manufacturing equipment and tools at the home. According to KABC, the home has multiple rooms and was cluttered with guns and ammunition. The weapons were described as a wide range of makes and models of different ages, including assault weapons, rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Many were modern, but some were also dated 50 years or more, with a few being fit as collectables as they were dated back to the Civil War, KABC reported. “I had never seen so many weapons in my career of 31 years,” LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez told KABC. “That’s such a big arsenal in a residence like this, in this type of neighborhood. It’s astounding.”

He told the station that it is not illegal for someone to own a large collection of firearms but it is illegal to sell such weapons from a home, and without going through the extensively-regulated state and federal processes. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and LAPD were serving a search warrant. In a written statement to CNN, ATF spokeswoman Ginger Colbrun said that police had received a tip that someone was “conducting illegal firearms transaction outside the scope of the federal firearm license that the individual possess.”

The Daily Mail reported that public property records show the home has five bedrooms and 8,200 square feet of living space. It was last sold in 2001 and its current estimated value is about $7 million. The LA Times reported that court records show the property is owned by Cynthia Beck, who has three daughters with the son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, Gordon Getty. Beck bought the property in January 2001, but it remains unclear if she has any connection to the firearms find, and the paper could not reach Beck for comment.

Officers from both agencies remained on the scene and continued the investigation. They were going through and disposing of boxes and taking photographs of the evidence, the LA Times reported. ”Obviously it’s a lot,” Officer Mike Lopez, a spokesman with the Los Angeles Police Department, told the LA Times. “They’re going to be there a long time. Possibly even tomorrow.” In a statement sighted by the Times, the ATF said, “ATF and LAPD have no reason to believe the public is in any danger.” In 2015, LAPD seized 1,200 guns, seven tons of ammunition and $230,000 in cash from a home. The owner had died of natural causes and was found in his SUV outside. At the time, it was considered one of the largest weapon’s seizure from one home, the LAPD said

https://www.theepochtimes.com/agents-seize-more-than-1000-guns-from-home-in-upscale-la-neighborhood-holmby-hills_2913113.html

Notable: Anon on cabal flooding CA with MS13/ISIS cheap weapons hidden in houses

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>>6452876

So to tie it all together, the cabal is: flooding CA with MS13/ISIS stockpiling cheap weapons easily obtained to avoids detection hidden in houses like we saw in today's raid..

Possibly smuggling larger weapons in shipping containers and placing them strategically throughout the US via rail lines.

Notable: Anon on FBI lost notes from Clinton probe met significant to concerns over foreign exfiltration leads

There is this Xi guy they call President of the People Rebublic of China.

Does China have a bunch of Dumb Shits running the place in the shadows too?

Ask NK?

Are these DS upending “trade” (peace deals)?

Lights on China this weak week.

How Deep does it go?

China Allegation

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), along with multiple anonymous sources, has alleged that Clinton’s server was compromised by a foreign hostile power, which was receiving Clinton’s incoming and outgoing emails.

That foreign power was China, using a company operating in northern Virginia, The Daily Caller reported, citing a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues and a government staff official—who both spoke on condition of anonymity.

The ICIG was examining the Clinton emails after it was asked by the State Department to check for classified information before the emails could be released pursuant to FOIA requests.

“When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata—the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails—that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer said.

He said he couldn’t disclose the name of the company.

“There are indications there are other ‘cutouts’ that were involved. I would be in a lot of trouble if I gave you the name,” he said.

There are a number of Chinese public state-owned companies with addresses in northern Virginia, including China Telecom Americas and China Unicom Americas, both in Herndon, right by the Dulles International Airport and less than 20 miles west of Washington.

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Comey Implicated?

The great Note Taker lost his notes or did the dog eat his homework?

“I don’t recall”

——

An intelligence analyst who was previously assigned to the Clinton case reached out to the FBI staffer who originally wrote the notes.

“I know this is a shot in the dark, but do you still have the meeting notes that you wrote up concerning an 8/3/2015 MRE meeting at FBIHQ? I think [redacted] correct me if I’m wrong) that this meeting was with the ICIG, if that helps matters,” the analyst wrote in a Feb. 5 email, also saying the notes “never made it to the file.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-lost-notes-from-clinton-probe-meeting-significant-to-concerns-over-foreign-exfiltration-lead_2912428.html

“I actually remember turning over my original notes for the file for this (it was right at the beginning of the case),” the staffer replied. “I gave them to [redacted] who was running the file then.”

Notable: >>6452891 Transgender Denver student Alec McKinney id'd as 2nd gunman in STEM school shooting

Transgender Denver high school student is identified as 'second gunman who killed one classmate and wounded eight', as friends refer to him as a 'tortured soul' who 'didn't get the support he needed'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7008381/Classmates-reveal-second-Denver-gunman-transgender-didnt-support-needed.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Zr7cpYTUcbveY9xJDmD_-lKpVtKHoAZJZj6Obe-4kFby7_KSFPkEYFKQ

Notable: California OKs new sex-ed guidelines for teachers despite objections from parents, protesters

California OKs new sex-ed guidelines for teachers despite objections from parents, protesters

these people are sick

the teachers have already been the first generation that was re-educated by the Hippies from the 60s

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-sex-education-transgender-lgbt

Notable: Buffett's Berkshire "Duped" Out Of $377 Million By "Ponzi-Like Solar Scheme"

Buffett's Berkshire "Duped" Out Of $377 Million By "Ponzi-Like Solar Scheme"

that is one big OOPS$$$$

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-08/buffetts-berkshire-duped-out-377-million-ponzi-solar-scheme-0

Notable: Baltimore TV anchor fired for questioning the leadership of past mayors (who happen to be black females)

Never, ever question the competence of a black female leader(s), regardless of object incompetence demonstrated x3

the left eats its own, always

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7007587/Baltimore-TV-anchor-fired-racist-sexist-question.html

Notable: Matt Gaetz will face Florida Bar grievance committee for tweet about Michael Cohen's 'girlfriends'

Matt Gaetz will face Florida Bar grievance committee for tweet about Michael Cohen's 'girlfriends'

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., will face a grievance committee in the Florida Bar's investigation of his intimidating tweet about former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. The Florida Bar said on Wednesday that the panel, described by the Tampa Bay Times as being akin to a grand jury, will take the case up from the initial review and decide if there was probable cause that Gaetz, who is licensed to practice law in Florida, violated state rules for lawyers. The association, as the highest governing body over licensed lawyers in Florida, was tasked with investigating dozens of complaints issued by Florida lawyers against Gaetz, including intimidation of a witness.

Guidelines published by the Florida Bar stipulate Florida's Supreme Court will have the final say on sanctions, if any, including disbarment. “Congressman Gaetz remains confident that the Florida Bar will not impair his vigorous and successful representation of his district," Gaetz's spokeswoman Jillian Lane Wyant told the Washington Examiner.

In late February, the night before Cohen was set to testify to the House Oversight Committee about his work for President Trump, Gaetz asked Cohen on Twitter: "Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…" Gaetz, who made an appearance at the hearing despite not being a member of the committee, deleted the tweet and apologized for it, claiming he never meant to threaten anybody. In a phone call reported by Vanity Fair, the congressman told Cohen he chose his words "poorly" in his text.

“Congressman Gaetz, I cannot thank you enough for your message," Cohen wrote back. "The tweet, sadly, has only made a bad situation worse … not only for my wife but for my children as well. With your permission, I would like to share your message with my wife and children. Hopefully, it will bring a little peace to their damaged life. We all make mistakes especially in this crazy partisan time. Thank you again for your text and I hope that the tweet does not cause you any harm. If it does, and there is anything I can do to help you correct it, please feel free to reach out and I would be happy to assist.” Cohen, who pleaded guilty to a handful of crimes, including bank fraud, lying to Congress, and illegal campaign contributions, began his three-year prison sentence Monday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/matt-gaetz-will-face-florida-bar-grievance-committee-for-tweet-about-michael-cohens-girlfriends

Notable: Intel that prompted US to deploy aircrast carrier to Middle East 'came from Israel'

Intel that prompted US to deploy aircraft carrier to Middle East ‘came from Israel’

https://intelnews.org/2019/05/09/01-2544/

Notable: Reminder: The Gettys bankrolled Gov Newsome's political career.

>>6452384

Reminder: The Gettys bankrolled Gov Newsome's political career.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/

Notable: Venezuelan Authorities Initiate Public Dialogue on Economic Development – Maduro

Venezuelan Authorities Initiate Public Dialogue on Economic Development – Maduro

Venezuelan authorities will engage the general public in discussions on the economic development of the crisis-hit country, President Nicolas Maduro has said.

In an address, broadcast live on Twitter on Wednesday, Maduro said that 4 and 5 May were "the great national days of dialogue", when representatives of all branches of the government discussed changes to the strategy of the country’s development and sought to create a special development plan.

"I have initiated a process of dialogue with the public in an effort to create a plan of action, reconstruction and change in the Bolivarian Revolution. I need a plan … for changing the economic and political life of the country completely. The first events happened on Saturday and Sunday and they were very interesting. Now, I want such public meetings to be held at the end of this week, and thousands of public meetings to be held in order to hear the people, their criticism and suggestions […] People know everything", Maduro said.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201905091074838194-venezuela-public-dialogue-economy-development/

Notable: Right kind of Muslims kill 9 wrong kind of Muslims – Ramadan Day 3

Just another day at the Shrine

Right kind of Muslims kill 9 wrong kind of Muslims – Ramadan Day 3

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/right-kind-of-muslims-kill-9-wrong-kind-of-muslims-ramadan-day-3

Notable: Day 2 of trial against NXIVM leader Keith Raniere (news clip at the link)

Day 2 of trial against NXIVM leader Keith Raniere (short embedded news video)

Updated: May 08, 2019 06:29 PM EDT

https://www.news10.com/video/day-2-of-trial-against-nxivm-leader-keith-raniere_20190508222944/1990450235

video is at link only screen shot posted here.

Notable: Video of Gun Raid from today

Video of Gun Raid from today.

Notable: >>6452400 Moar on Gun Seize property owner: Cynthia Beck

Moar on Gun Seize property owner- Cynthia Beck:

This article lays out some of her properties (all of them are digg worthy), a few Gordon Getty buys, then she buys from him a few months later at a higher price (money laundering, I’m sure). She has a VAST property portfolio. Many of her properties have just been left to waste, including an interesting Malibu mansion. Decked out in stone- but check this entrance out!!!

Blue and White Epstein temple style!!!

https://www.yolandaslittleblackbook.com/blog/2018/05/18/cynthia-beck-abandoned-malibu-mansion-28012-sea-lane/

Notable: Juan Guaido's Deputy Arrested

Juan Guaido's Deputy Arrested After Failed Venezuelan Coup Attempt

The Venezuelan Constituent National Assembly has removed parliamentary immunity from seven opposition lawmakers who supposedly took part in the recent failed coup in the country. Among those who lost their immunity was Edgar Jose Zambrano, who serves as a National Assembly deputy.

CARACAS (Sputnik) — Edgar Zambrano, the deputy speaker of the Venezuelan opposition-controlled National Assembly, has been detained in the wake of the failed coup in the country, Diosdado Cabello, the head of the government-led National Constituent Assembly has said.

"I am informing you that several minutes ago, one of the leaders of the government overturn of April 30… Edgar Zambrano… was detained," Cabello said live on a state-run TV channel on Wednesday.

Earlier, self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, turned to Twitter, saying that the "vice president" of the opposition-controlled National Assembly had been detained by authorities from President Nicolas Maduro's government.

Edgar Zambrano, the assembly "vice president", said on Twitter that agents from the SEBIN intelligence agency had surprised him and, after refusing to let him out of his vehicle, were using a tow truck to take him to the SEBIN's Caracas headquarters, Reuters reported.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201905091074835342-guaido-claim-opposition-congress-vice-president-detained/

Notable: Planefag: AF1 OTG @ JB Andrews

AF1 OTG @ JB Andrews

Notable: Anon on "Magic Mushroom" pills and cures

>>6449513 PB on Legalization of Magic Mushrooms in Colorado; Reason? The Recent Medical Research.

Cannabinoid molecules that stop seizures in seconds, from the Marijuana plant, and now, outrageously excellent NATURAL anti-depressant activity from the "Magic Mushroom".

It only takes ONE mushroom pill. (pic related)

The research subjects in all of the experiments so far describe the experience as if someone had hit the "reset" button in their brains. More experiments are being planned, because of all the great results with the smaller experiments.

See:

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/mental-health/magic-mushrooms-for-cancer-depression/

The antidepressant effects last for up to 6 MONTHS, and can save the lives of many cancer patients, and the suicidal, since these people need the psychological edge to fight back.

So far, there are no side effects at all.

One pill.

One pill. Five weeks to SIX months of relief.

No side effects.

Catch up on the science.

Sorry for the rant, but…..

This is America.

We have been letting big pharma deny us our natural medicines for far too long.

ONE thing we have the inalienable right to do is care for our fellow Americans, our fellow man, our children, without being granted some license by some bureaucrat to take care of the neighbors if we so choose.

WE are smart enough to figure out how to best use these plants. We are smart enough to do the research, if we are free to do the research.

IMHO. ….NO GREEN PLANT or other natural life form should be against the law in America. Nearly all of the best medicine comes from plants, fungus like mushrooms, etc.

There is science to do, and it can not be done when researchers are under the threat of arrest. We do not need the man made fake stuff today, when we have the technology to concentrate the real God given thing that will work with our bodies.

We Americans have an inalienable GOD given right to grow anything God gave us. The Constitution does not bar Americans from plant production of any kind, nor should it. The entire idea that anything like this would be illegal to work with, especially to do research that saves lives, is unconstitutional.

The government bureaucrats would want to talk to me about the dangers……

Don't talk to me about dangerous plants when there are weeds in my field that can kill my cows, and common house plants that can take my children's voice away if they are chewed on by my toddlers. Some house plants and common weeds are absolutely deadly. You cant even ingest one leaf.

But they are not illegal for us to have?

NO.

WHY then, does the government outlaw plants that are …not …deadly poisonous?

$$$$$$$ for big pharma….

That's why.

Government needs to quit playing daddy.

How many years worth of children have died from these deadly seizures because people partied with a marijuana plant and used it to kill pain, which was threatening big pharma profits???

How many private prison businesses relied on those jail sentences for trading in a green plant that harms no one, and that researchers needed to be researching 49 years ago to save so many lost lives?????

How many of our families have lost their fathers to these for profit prison businesses?

SCOURGE on America.

How many people have committed suicide for lack of a good all natural antidepressant?

As a biofag, all I can say is…

Go Colorado!!!!

Give these evil big pharma assholes who want to control every plant on the planet for their own profit …HELL!

Between them, and Monsanto, mankind has been denied so many of Gods gifts.

So sorry anons, for the rant.

But, it has to be said. It's life and death for so many. They literally take our right to save each others lives away. If we do not have this right, what do we have America?

Notable: Trump Taming the [China] Trade Dragon

newest from Ben Garrison

Trump Taming the [China] Trade Dragon

For far too long China has taken advantage of the west when it comes to trade.

Our recent presidents have consistently caved in to them—especially the Clintons who likely gave the Chinese whatever they wanted in exchange for campaign donations. Yes, it’s still yet another Clinton scandal that should have been investigated.

H.W. Bush said by opening up trade with China, our relations with them would become friendlier. He was China’s useful idiot. Instead of becoming our friend, bad trade deals only made China a wealthier enemy. They still consider us an archenemy. Bush did nothing after the Tiananmen Square massacre. We know what China has done to Tibet and they still want to invade Taiwan. They are building islands to help with their future military conquests. Regardless, we finally have a president willing to stand up to them, and they must view that with alarm. If they refuse to compromise, it could bring down their over-extended economy.

China has long been using unfair, xenophobic trade policies to shaft other countries. Western nations—especially the USA—have relocated way too many industries in China. China not only utilizes vast, cheap labor, but they also have no moral compunction when it comes to spying on foreign corporations or even stealing foreign products and processes. That includes stealing military technology–that is, when the Clintons weren’t handing it over to them outright. They’ve manipulated their currency to give them a constant advantage.

China has been around for over 5,000 years and they’ve learned to take a long-range view of things. They are very patient with their strategy, which of course is world domination. I once heard a translation of President Xi’s comments when he visited America early in Trump’s presidency. Xi flatly stated that he was an atheist. That means he worships himself. He recently proved that by ordering his subjects to love and worship him. He’s becoming the new Mao and like that dictator, Xi’s delusional religion is his own relentless expansion of power. He probably grew accustomed to world leaders applauding China’s habit of ripping them off.

President Trump wants to end the rip offs. Such a push back against China has been long overdue.

—Ben Garrison

https://grrrgraphics.com/taming-the-dragon/

Notable: >>6452102 New POTUS tweet

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126325461217202176

POTUS tweet.

Notable: For keks: 'love you, no homo' from POTUS

A love you, no homo from tonight

Notable: Why did Strzok want to interview former CIA Deputy Director Michael J. Morell in Feb 2016?

Why did Strzok want to interview form CIA Deputy Director Michael J. Morell in Feb 2016?

Is it because Morell was emailing HRC?

https://twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1126315194370727937

Notable: Anon on the NSA's "Niagara Files" and the Apache Software Foundation

Need EYES on this anons! Early this morning an anon posted here >>6445253 (old bread) about an OPEN SOURCE database search product released by the NSA in 2014 called "Niagara Files". (Article linked below)(morning anon's pics related)

I am not a Linux user which is required for posting this code and moreover not that great with tech stuff so this needs someone proficient in Linux. I've come across this article before and don't think anyone has searched this here (if wrong my bad) but PLEASE someone look at this.

We've been told we "have more than you know", "it's all there", "watch the water" and "open source". Niagara (water), NSA database (all there), open source (open source). THIS has to be something worthy of anons time.

NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community

The National Security Agency announced today the public release of its new technology that automates data flows among multiple computer networks, even when data formats and protocols differ. The tool, called "Niagarafiles (Nifi)," could benefit the U.S. private sector in various ways. For example, commercial enterprises could use it to quickly control, manage, and analyze the flow of information from geographically dispersed sites - creating comprehensive situational awareness.

The software is "open source," which means its code is available to the public - in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. It is the first in a series of releases of in-house software products by NSA's Technology Transfer Program (TTP). Posting the code to open source forums allows the private sector and others to examine the agency's research up close, and potentially benefit from it through additional enhancements and applications. At the same time, the government can gain from related research advances.

In both the private and public sectors, data management has become an increasingly complex challenge - given the rigorous legal frameworks that must be taken into account, as well as the volume of data that may be encountered in the Digital Era.

https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/Article/1649337/nsa-releases-first-in-series-of-software-products-to-open-source-community/

https://nifi.apache.org/faq.html

Notable: >>6451975, >>6452026 ODD National Guard Tweet

ODD National Guard Tweet

Why would the video clip give coordinates for Houston, TX, but show street signs for Wilmington, NC.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NationalGuard/status/1126128563118325760

Notable: >>6451736, >>6451937, >>6451641, >>6451925, >>6452027 Massive cache of 1,000 guns seized at Bel-Air mansion from ATF raid

*Happening

www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-atf-lapd-investigation-20190508-story.html%3foutputType=amp

Notable: >>6451676, >>6451688, >>6451724, >>6451960, >>6452215 Planefag: B-52H call sign "MYTEE54"

B-52H call sign "MYTEE54"

'MYTEE' is reserved for "special activity" flights

Notable: Another marker confirmed for Friday?

looks like another marker confirmed for friday

Notable: , >>6451498 Planefag Updates

USAF G5 VIP SAM959

JB Andrews to CS, Colo and back

Notable: Florida Rally photo

>>6450961

Daniel Scavino

🚨Happening Now - Panama City Beach, Florida…

Notable: Anon reports #WWG1WGA 9,220,000 tweets in the past hour

Whoah #WWG1WGA 9,220,000T tweets in the past hour. Anyone else seeing this? Eerily happening after that epic Rally!

Notable: , >>6451195, >>6451124, >>6451309 Breaking: POTUS is cleaning out the press

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK???

Cassandra Fairbanks of the Gateway Pundit.

BANNED FROM

THE WHITE HOUSE?

This makes no sense at all.

Help.

Notable: POTUS: "we're getting rid of a lot of the rigging"

"we're getting rid of a lot of the rigging"

not a sailingAnon - what does that mean?

Notable: , >>6451043 Sunset: US Naval Forces tweet reflects Flynns new bg

U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Tweets:

We love sharing amazing #sunsets!

https://mobile.twitter.com/USNavyEurope/status/1126203370224672768

Following Flynn’s Lead?

Notable: , >>6450455, >>6450483, >>6450456 Canadian SC Justice reported missing

This normal?

BREAKING: Ottawa Police issue bulletin for missing Canadian Supreme Court Justice Clément Gascon

https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1126282324365258753?s=21

Notable: Texas uni teaches students about 'sexual pleasure for infants'

Don't know if posted yet, but are we gonna let them get by without saying anything?

This is sick!

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/08/university-of-north-texas-course-teaches-students-about-sexual-pleasure-for-infants/

Notable: The Karate Kid: John Kreese

this been dug on?

Background

Born in 1941, John Kreese joined the U.S. Army at some point in the past, becoming a commissioned officer. He volunteered for and passed U.S. Army Special Forces selection training, and proceeded to serve in a Green Beret unit during the Vietnam War. He attained the rank of captain, and was the Army's karate champion from 1970 to 1972, as shown on a framed picture of Kreese in uniform, which hung on the wall of his dojo in the first film. During his time in the Army, Kreese befriended a fellow Green Beret, Terry Silver, and saved his life several times in Vietnam. Despite this, Kreese would years later maintain that Silver doesn't owe him anything, though he admits he "lost count" of how many times he saved Silver's life.

In 1970, Kreese became the U.S. Army’s Karate champion, at which point Silver requested that Kreese train him and Silver began undertaking extensive Karate lessons from Kreese in between combat missions. Kreese, who had studied under Kim Sun-Yung of South Korea, instilled in Silver the creed of “Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy.” The two continued their rigorous workouts and sparring matches throughout the remainder of the war, along with others in their infantry company so that more soldiers could learn the valuable hand-to-hand combat skills. It was this small but elite group of soldiers who became the very first “Cobra Kai” class, and all of them received a distinctive tattoo of a fist clutching a cobra, which was to become the symbol of their brotherhood. After leaving the Army, Kreese opened a karate dojo with the help of Terry Silver, Cobra Kai, training young men in "the way of the fist". According to Martin Kove, Kreese had won at everything his entire life, and in Vietnam, the war was not allowed to be won. After the war, Kreese returned home and vowed that he and his dojo would not lose ever again. Because of this, Kreese created a simple motto for Cobra Kai, summing up his view on fighting and life itself: "Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy".

https://thekaratekid.fandom.com/wiki/John_Kreese

Notable: Florida rally cap

>>6450254

I meant this one…

Notable: US indicts 2 Israeli operators of Darkweb gateway

Scott W. Brady, the U.S. attorney for Western Pennsylvania, said DeepDotWeb's takedown represents a major blow to the Darknet economy.

"This is the single most significant law enforcement disruption of the Darknet to date," Brady said at a press conference in Pittsburgh. "While there have been successful prosecutions of various Darknet marketplaces, this prosecution is the first to attack the infrastructure supporting the Darknet itself."

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-indicts-two-israeli-operators-of-darkweb-gateway-/4909535.html

MOSSAD Indictments

Notable: Judge who presided over MS-13 gang cases confirmed for federal appeals court

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/judge-bianco-senate-second-circuit-1.30825785

Judge who presided over MS-13 gang cases confirmed by U.S. Senate for federal appeals court

Notable: PA school drops 'God Bless America' after complaint

https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-school-drops-god-bless-america-after-freedom-from-religion-foundation-complaint

Wasn’t another Pennsylvania school just in the news?

Notable: , >>6449908 Estee Lauder Family Trust sells shares worth $465,378,624

Estee Lauder Family Trust sells shares worth $465,378,624

Grand-daughter of Estee Lauder

Aerin Rebecca Zinterhofer

Also Known As: Aerin Lauder

At least $3 billion | 49 years old | United States

Primary Position: Director, Estee Lauder Companies

Grandmother, Estee Lauder, started Estee Lauder Cosmetics in 1946, with four products. She initially sold skin products developed by her uncle, a chemist, in local beauty salons and hotels. Estee developed some of the most successful fragrances including, Youth Dew, Aramis and Beautiful. Aramis, Clinique, Prescriptives, Lab Series Skincare for Men and Origins were also launched under her watch. The firm was later known as Estee Lauder Companies. Aerin Zinterhofer: Granddaughter of Estee joined the family business in 1992 as a Member .

https://www.wealthx.com/dossier/aerin-lauder-zinterhofer/

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1001250.htm

Notable: , >>6449982 New DJT: Panama City Beach rally at 8pm ET

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126264006988181505

Notable: Petition for Brian Sims to resign 17,000+ signatures now (4000+ yesterday)

>>6449244

Petition for Sims to resign 17thousand + signatures as of now

https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/rep-brian-sims-should-resign-for-harassing-pro-life-woman.html

Notable: diGenova predicted 'criminal referrals' in 2 Weeks; May 10

Watch for the Comey report to drop on Friday.

‘Joe DiGenova Predicts ‘Criminal Referrals’ From Comey Report Coming Out In 2 Weeks’ on April 26.

>https://www.libertybugle.com/joe-digenova-predicts-criminal-referrals-from-comey-report-coming-out-in-2-weeks-video/

Future proves past.

Notable: , >>6449627 Secret agent found dead in Paris

>>6449384

>https://www.newsweek.com/secret-agent-discovered-dead-paris-pool-vomit-found-possess-encryption-key-1418977

Notable: Trump and Kushner being sued for keeping Saudi meetings off the record

Trump and Kushner being sued for keeping Saudi meetings off the record

A lawsuit has been filed against US President Donald Trump and his son in law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, alleging their failure to keep records of meetings with foreign government officials, including some from Saudi Arabia.

The lawsuit was filed yesterday in a District of Columbia Court by three different institutions including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). On its website, the group describes itself as a non-profit organisation of lawyers seeking to “reduce the influence of money in politics and help foster a government that is ethical and accountable.”

Details of numerous instances where Trump and Kushner are said to have broken the law have been cited, including five meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Note takers were also absent during Kushner’s meetings with top Saudi officials. The lawsuit describes Kushner as having several meetings recently in Riyadh that “excluded State Department officials, thereby avoiding the creation of a record of his conversations.”

According to CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder, “It is clear that President Trump and White House officials have gone to great lengths to hold high-level meetings with foreign governments and carry out foreign policy objectives while blatantly ignoring recordkeeping laws and preventing national security officials and the American people from understanding what they are doing.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190508-trump-and-kushner-being-sued-for-keeping-saudi-meetings-off-the-record/

Notable: Timeline of potentially related events leading up to Colorado shooting

>>6449150

Timeline of potentially related events leading up to Colorado shooting

Apr 15: Sol Pais arrives in Denver, ostensibly with the intention of committing a mass shooting.

Apr 17: Sol Pais dies http://archive.is/ZjDpD

Apr 24: Sheriff training exercise http://archive.is/0GMXM

Apr 29: Wikipedia warning posted https://kdvr.com/2019/05/07/ominous-note-on-stem-wikipedia-page-a-possible-warning-of-school-shooting/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190508005648/https://kdvr.com/2019/05/07/ominous-note-on-stem-wikipedia-page-a-possible-warning-of-school-shooting/

May 7: 7:46 AM: FF warning -24hrs https://twitter.com/TrueEyeTheSpy/status/1125773915371057154

May 7: 1:50 PM: Shooting occurs

Sauce

>https://twitter.com/JTweets1234/status/1126235240186273792

Notable: Denver decriminalises magic mushrooms as bill passes

BREAKING: Ordinance decriminalizing use and possession of psychedelic mushrooms in Denver, Colorado, appears to have passed; Denver would be the first city in the U.S. to take such an act - KDVR

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1126253849944059904

Notable: FOIA reveals Detroit police track people through their cell phones

Detroit Police Spent More Than Half Million Dollars On Cell-Site Simulator To Track People’s Locations

Detroit police purchased surveillance technology that allows police to actively track people’s locations through their cell phones, according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.

In October 2017, the Detroit Police Department (DPD) obtained a cell-site simulator, which is a type of surveillance technology that locates and tracks phones by mimicking cell phone towers. Also known as IMSI catchers and Stingrays (a specific model of cell-site simulator made by Harris Corporation), cell-site simulators are increasingly used by law enforcement to locate suspects in investigations across the country.

The technology was purchased for $622,000 from KeyW Corporation in 2016, but DPD did not take possession of the equipment until the fall of 2017.

DPD’s cell-site simulator was deployed at least 66 times between January 1, 2018, and October 31, 2018.

Cell-site simulators allow police to collect the cellphone location information of anyone in the vicinity of the device. This is not limited to the targets of police investigations and includes passersby suspected of no wrongdoing.

Such dragnet surveillance has sparked widespread concern from civil liberties groups across the country. They argue cell-site simulators can be used to circumvent constitutional rights to privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

While some cities recently enacted legislation requiring police departments to inform the public and even gain approval from city council before obtaining new surveillance technologies, Detroit has no such policy in place.

Shelli Weisberg, political director at the ACLU of Michigan, believes the ability of law enforcement agencies like DPD to unilaterally acquire surveillance technology without public knowledge or approval is a huge problem.

“The fact that no public input is mandated is really problematic,” Weisberg said. “Having a privacy ordinance like that would be beneficial in Michigan.”

Additionally, a non-disclosure agreement between the City of Detroit and KeyW shows Detroit must notify the company of records requests pertaining to its work “immediately,” so that it can seek to block their disclosure.

“KEYW shall, if it chooses, take action to prevent the disclosure and notify the receiving party of this action in no more than the time receiving party has to respond to the disclosure request,” the NDA reads.

https://shadowproof.com/2019/05/08/detroit-police-spent-more-than-half-million-dollars-on-cell-site-simulator-to-track-peoples-locations/

Notable: Trump Sanctions Iran’s Metal Exports

Trump Sanctions Iran’s Metal Exports

The Trump administration sanctioned iron, steel, aluminum, and copper exports from Iran on May 8, choking off Tehran’s second-largest source of revenue. The White House’s announcement was timed with the one-year anniversary of Trump’s withdrawal from the previous administration’s Iran nuclear deal. Metals make up 10 percent of the Islamic regime’s exports. After the withdrawal, the United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil and petrochemical exports, the regime’s top source of revenue.

“Because of our action, the Iranian regime is struggling to fund its campaign of violent terror, as its economy heads into an unprecedented depression, government revenue dries up, and inflation spirals out of control,” Trump said in a statement. “We are successfully imposing the most powerful maximum pressure campaign ever witnessed, which today’s action will further strengthen.” Earlier in May, the Trump administration announced that it will not renew waivers it issued to several nations that have depended on Iranian oil, to clamp down completely on the regime’s oil industry. In April, the administration declared Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist group. The United State considers Iran an “outlaw regime,” blaming it for malign activity around the world. Washington accuses Iran’s leaders of being the biggest funders of radical Islamic terrorism.

Trump quit the deal with Iran and several other nations in 2018, saying that the agreement allowed Iran to continue funding terrorism and developing ballistic missiles, among other issues. Israeli intelligence revealed in 2018 that Iran concealed a vast archive of nuclear weapons research in violation of the nuclear deal. Hours before Trump’s announcement, Iran informed ambassadors from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, and Russia of its decision to stop implementing “some commitments” of the Iran deal, officially titled the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). A letter from President Hassan Rouhani was delivered to the envoys of countries that are still party to the deal.

The United Kingdom said on May 8 it was extremely concerned about Iran’s announcement and that Tehran would face consequences if it backed away from the deal. Russia blamed the United States for Iran’s walking away from parts of the deal. “We are extremely concerned about this announcement and urge Iran to continue to meet its commitments under the deal and not to take escalatory steps,” British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said. The United States put forth 12 demands for Iran upon quitting the JCPOA, asking the regime to shut down its nuclear program, stop enriching plutonium, allow full access to international observers, and halt the development of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, among other requests.

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“Tehran can expect further actions unless it fundamentally alters its conduct,” Trump said. “I look forward to someday meeting with the leaders of Iran in order to work out an agreement and, very importantly, taking steps to give Iran the future it deserves.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the United States demands the same from all other nations and that Iran is not unique. Tehran’s rulers have vehemently resisted pressure from the United States. In January, the regime carried out a failed satellite launch, defying a warning from Trump, and in February, Iran tested a new ballistic missile.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-sanctions-irans-metal-exports_2912376.html

Notable: FBI lost notes from Clinton probe meeting significant

FBI Lost Notes From Clinton Probe Meeting Significant to Concerns Over Foreign Exfiltration Lead

The FBI had lost notes from a 2015 meeting with people from the office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), according to newly released FBI records on the investigation of Former State Secretary Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information. The news raises a concern that some information about an explosive lead passed by the ICIG to the FBI now might be lost. The lost notes memorialized a meeting that took place on Aug. 3, 2015, less than a month after the ICIG made a referral to the FBI that classified information may have been disclosed in an unauthorized manner to a foreign power because Clinton conducted State Department business through an email hosted on an insufficiently secured server in her basement. The ICIG-FBI meetings hold special significance because it was allegedly several of these meetings where the ICIG officials passed a lead to the FBI about anomalies in the metadata of the emails indicating that a copy of nearly every email was sent to an agent of a foreign power. Several lawmakers as well as the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) publicly confirmed that then-ICIG Charles McCullough told them about the metadata anomalies and that the lead was communicated to the FBI. The FBI acknowledged that Clinton’s emails could have been breached by foreign actors who covered their tracks, but denied that any evidence of foreign infiltration was found. Several current and former senior FBI officials involved in the Clinton case denied in congressional testimonies any recollection of receiving the metadata lead.

Missing Notes Based on documents from a tranche released by the FBI around May 6, special agents from the FBI’s Washington field office were going through materials from the Clinton investigation so they could be released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. On Feb. 4, they tried to find the ICIG meeting notes, which should have been in the case file based on information in the FBI’s electronic case management system. But the notes weren’t there. An intelligence analyst who was previously assigned to the Clinton case reached out to the FBI staffer who originally wrote the notes.

“I know this is a shot in the dark, but do you still have the meeting notes that you wrote up concerning an 8/3/2015 MRE meeting at FBIHQ? I think [redacted] correct me if I’m wrong) that this meeting was with the ICIG, if that helps matters,” the analyst wrote in a Feb. 5 email, also saying the notes “never made it to the file.” “I actually remember turning over my original notes for the file for this (it was right at the beginning of the case),” the staffer replied. “I gave them to [redacted] who was running the file then.” All names have been redacted in the communications. The email indicates, however, that the staffer is now with the FBI’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, which takes care of IT services for the bureau. A Feb. 12 document shows that the Washington Field Office considered the meeting notes missing as the special agent who was to receive the notes from the staffer said he “documented all relevant case material before leaving the case and did not retain any notes or other case materials.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-lost-notes-from-clinton-probe-meeting-significant-to-concerns-over-foreign-exfiltration-lead_2912428.html

Notable: The PP where Brian Sims harassed pro-Lifers is a mess

The Planned Parenthood Where Brian Sims Harassed Pro-Lifers Is A Mess

The Planned Parenthood clinic where Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims harassed pro-life protesters has a terrible track record with state health and safety inspectors. Inspectors failed the Philadelphia clinic in 13 of its last 23 inspections, including a revisit in 2018 because it had not corrected the deficiencies identified in a prior visit. Inspectors also identified a wide range of safety problems at the clinic since 2011, including failure to report sex abuse of children and improper storage of aborted babies, according to records from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Sims visited the clinic last week and filmed himself harassing pro-life protesters, including a woman and three young girls who told him they were there to pray for the babies. “I’ve got $100 to anyone who will identify any of these three,” he said, after referring to them as “pseudo-Christians” there solely for the purpose of “shaming young girls.” Sims did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the health and safety record of the clinic.

The clinic passed its most recent inspection posted online in March 2019, but it is unclear what disciplinary or corrective action was taken regarding its past failures. A spokeswoman at the Pennsylvania Department of Health said those records are not available, except by a freedom of information request. The most egregious failing at the clinic is its failure to follow Pennsylvania child abuse laws, which stipulate a child under the age of 13 is incapable of consenting to sex, and that sex with a child under the age of 16 is a crime if the offender is four or more years older than the child. Health care providers including this clinic are required under the law to report these crimes. The clinic was found to have failed to report multiple instances in which unmarried girls under the age of 15 came to them pregnant. One of the girls, who was only 13, indicated on a form she first had sex when she was 11. The clinic did not report these instances of potential abuse and criminal violations to the state.

Additionally, the clinic was found on multiple inspections over the years to be in violation of safety protocols, such as fire safety standards and proper disposal and storage of biohazardous waste. In one 2015 visit, inspectors found ice and frost build up in a freezer, where the remains of aborted babies were improperly stored in red biohazard bags. Inspectors also found unsanitary conditions in several visits, including a container of used needles spilled and scattered on the floor of a biohazard room, and failure to meet standards about the storage of drugs. “The recovery area revealed multiple darkened stained areas on the carpeted floor,” a 2015 inspection report found. “The cushion of a patient bench had multiple darkened stains.” The clinic also failed seven of their last 14 building inspections.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/planned-parenthood-brian-sims/

Notable: BO to release his 'memoir' during election season.

The winning doesn’t stop anons!

https://thegrio.com/2019/05/08/barack-obama-memoir-delay-2020/

Notable: Constitutional crisis mentioned by Q.

Nadler: We’re in a Constitutional Crisis — Trump ‘Disobeying the Law’

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/08/nadler-were-in-a-constitutional-crisis-trump-disobeying-the-law/

THIS IS NOTABLE

Q Mentions constitutional crisis on posts 972 and 964

Pics attached

Notable: Iran reportedly moving ballistic missiles by boat.

FFS

Notable: Senators urge Pompeo to move against Cuba’s doctor trafficking.

Senators Urge Pompeo to Move Against Cuba’s Doctor Trafficking

A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators is urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “take greater action” regarding Cuba’s use of that country’s doctors and other medical personnel for overseas assignments that amount to human trafficking in forced labor.

“As of 2015, the Cuban regime had deployed more than 50,000 medical personnel for foreign medical missions in 67 countries—in essence, a global network of human trafficking that generated billions of dollars in revenue for the regime,” wrote senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, both Florida Republicans, and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in the letter.

Citing recent media reports, the senators told Pompeo that “while it has long been understood that the Cuban regime profits from these deployments, this new investigation exposes the way in which Cuban and Venezuelan officials compelled Cuban doctors to provide services and medicines only to supporters of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

“Such repugnant politicization of medical treatment forced Cuban doctors to deny essential care to sick and aging Venezuelans if they were deemed insufficiently loyal to the Maduro regime.”

The political use of health care services by the Maduro regime prior to the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election was succeeded by exploding inflation, chronic shortages of basic necessities, including food and fuel for transportation, and a breakdown of public utility services such as electricity and water.

Venezuela now appears to be on the verge of a genuine civil war. In addition to the doctors, the Cuban regime has dispatched 20,000 or more troops to Venezuela, according to White House National Security Adviser John Bolton. Cuban officials deny having any troops in Venezuela.

The senators also pointed to Cuba’s recent “Mais Medicos” deal with the former government of Brazil in which “the financial arrangement between the former government of Brazil, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the Cuban regime allowed the regime to withhold approximately 75 percent of the Cuban doctors’ wages.

“Under this arrangement, Cuban doctors were the only medical professionals participating in the Mais Medícos program to have a substantial part of their salaries retained by their government.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/senators-urge-pompeo-to-move-against-cubas-doctor-trafficking_2912549.html

Notable: Seattle School District urges teachers to follow CAIR guidelines on blessing Muslim students during Ramadan.

smdh.

Seattle School District Urges Teachers to Follow CAIR Guidelines on Blessing Muslim Students During Ramadan

Dieringer School District in Seattle, Washington, is calling on its teachers to follow CAIR-issued guidelines regarding adherence to Islam. The school district is urging its teachers to bless Muslim students by reciting Arabic to them during Ramadan.

https://www.breitbart.com/education/2019/05/08/seattle-school-district-urges-teachers-to-follow-cair-guidelines-on-blessing-muslim-students-during-ramadan/

Notable: Maggie Tweets.

>>6448788

ChooChooMaggie:

Wasn't he interviewed under penalty of perjury the previous times?

CST

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1126230946607505410

responding to:

Don jr under oath?! I could not be more excited.

last bit:

A day after McConnell took to the senate floor to declare "case closed," senate intel in GOP-controlled senate has subpoened @DonaldJTrumpJr

inner sauce

https://www.axios.com/senate-intelligence-committee-donald-trump-jr-subpoena-russia-9c9ed1e6-63e4-4796-91c4-a20082e991d2.html

Notable: Baltimore hit by ransomware attack, forcing officials to shut down city's servers.

(6 days ago)

Baltimore mayor resigns amid ongoing corruption scandal

https://nypost.com/2019/05/02/baltimore-mayor-resigns-amid-ongoing-corruption-scandal/

(Today)

Baltimore hit by ransomware attack, forcing officials to shut down city's servers

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/baltimore-hit-by-ransomware-attack-forcing-officials-to-shut-down-citys-servers

Buried in this article a nugget, or pointer.

"Last year, Atlanta’s computer systems were hit. The ransomware attack locked important city data behind an encrypted wall that could only be unlocked if the city paid hackers thousands of dollars in Bitcoins.

The ransom note left by the hackers said that refusing to pay the figure would lead to wiping out the information.

In December, a federal grand jury in Atlanta indicted two Iranian nationals, Faramarz Savandi and Mohammed Mansouri, for creating and deploying the""SamSam" ransomware that crippled online government services for more than a week."

It's the Iranians

Bitter because POTUS pointed B-52s at them and Sent Pompeo to reassure Iraq we'd stand strong for freedom after they struck Israel through Hamas and Hezbollah? The time of the Iranian mafia has ended. POTUS Sanctions their metals today and they try to steal the city of Baltimore. Now its a Federal Case.

(Next)

Servers get seized by FBI Cybercrimes Division. Deep dive into City of Baltimore's books. UH - OH, what's that? Decades of corruption via the port, the church, the cops, the firemen…and DC just down the road?? Don't shit where you dine, shit in Baltimore instead.

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Big announcement today: Drug companies have to come clean about their prices in TV ads. Historic transparency for American patients is here…"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126230693959200769

Big announcement today: Drug companies have to come clean about their prices in TV ads. Historic transparency for American patients is here. If drug companies are ashamed of those prices—lower them!

Notable: DJT Tweet: "The reality is, with the Tariffs, the economy has grown more rapidly in the United States and much more slowly in China…"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126229955677786113

“The reality is, with the Tariffs, the economy has grown more rapidly in the United States and much more slowly in China.” Peter Morici, Former Chief Economist, USITC

Notable: Marketfag update: POTUS winning.

US Market Report-TROLOLOLOLO can't beat POTUS

written by pepe with very little input from outside sources

DOW

Volume 273,140,295

Avg. Volume 294,380,491

NAS

Volume 1,926,438,976

Avg. Volume 2,199,952,295

SP500

Volume 1,906,076,164

Avg. Volume 3,571,218,196

as mentiioned for how many month's?-IT'S JUST NOT THERE

The roller coaster continued today as the NAS was nothing but paper and burning short's on the up's and down's called an equity market.

The system cannot handle "down". The futures were down about 100point s on the DOW this morning and they were quickly erased upon the cash open. Oil told the tale of today as it was quickly juiced upwards prior to the cash open. Futures already indicated this a few hour's earlier.

Pepe was up early like most anons this morning

The selloff was accelerated because INTEL had poor guidance in it's just released report

see here:

Intel : shares sink as executives give three-year outlook

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp shares declined 2.5 percent after executives gave their three-year outlook at an investor day on the company's Santa Clara, California campus.

Chief Executive Bob Swan said on Wednesday the company sees both revenue and earnings per share growing in the "single digit" percentage range over the next three years, with flat PC chip sales offset by "double digit" percentage revenue growth in data center chips.

https://www.marketscreener.com/INTEL-CORPORATION-4829/news/Intel-shares-sink-as-executives-give-three-year-outlook-28562432/

They knew this was coming and have since the quarter ended. No surprise here.

See cap #2 for the clsoing slide, also see the circled NAS volume bars. Total prop job.

The put/call ratio is fairly skewed on the retail ETF side. But on the 'tute side it resembles the situation that developed just prior to 2008. The system made it appear "all was well" and we now know it was not.

See cap #3

here is some input from ZH

Ugly Close Erases Early Stock Gains As Algos Chase Trade Headlines All Day

Chinese markets started off weak but that drop was met with a wall of National Team buying, only to see more selling pressure stocks lower into the afternoon session close..

European markets were mixed with DAX leading and Spain and Italy flat, though well of the intraday lows.

US Futures show the roller-coaster ride today with overnight headlines of China's reneging starting the decline, Trump tweets and Sanders reiteration prompted hope-filled gains, and then China's retaliation headlines sparked selling..

Stocks were holding hopeful gains until the last 15 minutes which - as opposed to yesterday's panic-bid - dumped.

(INTEL report was coming-see above)

With a major sell program hitting.

We also note a large $20bn IBM bond sale likely put upward (rate-lock) pressure on yields all day.

10Y Yields spiked after the ugly auction, reaching up to its Monday opening levels.

Brent Crude futures just achieved a 'bullish' golden cross.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-08/stocks-gain-amid-bond-pain-trade-headlines-dominated

See Cap#4 for Goldman Sak's chart showing the shitshow of China will do this and China will do that as track it against the movement's of the market's.

Notable: Charlie Kirk Has a donor offering 25K for information re: Trump's leaked tax documents.

Diggs for Cash

Charlie Kirk Has a donor offering 25 Grande !

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1126172833187373056

Notable: Donald Trump Jr. has been subpoenaed.

Donald Trump Jr. has been subpoenaed

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1126221001061228544

Notable: The House Judiciary Committee just passed a resolution to hold AG Barr in contempt.

>>6448383

TY Baker!!!

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1126223839766167562

BNL NEWS

‏ @BreakingNLive

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just passed a resolution to hold AG Barr in contempt for ‘not complying with a subpoena for the full Mueller report’

Notable: Mike Pompeo says Aasia Bibi 'safely reunited' with her family.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1968704/1-mike-pompeo-says-aasia-bibi-safely-reunited-family/

Mike Pompeo says Aasia Bibi 'safely reunited' with her family

Notable: CSPAN Poll: Winning!

Another BIG move. Not tired of Winning!

Votes at 58K with 48% yes and 52% No

"Should Attorney General William Barr be held in contempt of Congress?"

>>6447795

>Patriots made BIG move in one bread!

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1126116099009982466

Notable: FBI opened obstruction of justice probe against President Trump before Mueller probe.

MORE ROSENSTEIN LIES: FBI Opened Obstruction of Justice Probe Against President Trump Before Mueller Probe

In April 2018 Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Trump in a private meeting that he was not a target of “any part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.”

The meeting took place in early 2018 and Rosenstein, who brought up the investigations himself, offered the assurance during a meeting with Trump at the White House

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/more-rosenstein-lies-fbi-opened-obstruction-of-justice-probe-against-president-trump-before-mueller-probe/

Notable: Big Tech capitalizes on hyper-sensitized dopamine systems.

Human Brains Re-wired in Tech Age, Big Tech Capitalizes on “Hypersensitized” Dopamine Systems

“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works…”

Facebook has been spotlighted for its censorship of Alex Jones and Infowars, but there is another angle to Big Tech tyranny.

Depression and suicide are at record rates in the west. While there are many driving factors behind this trend, one of them appears to be worsening addictions to tech.

Human development has this far driven us toward interaction with others. We needed to connect with and learn from each other. We need to reproduce.

What happens when our technology becomes more “rewarding” than anything else?

In Japan, where cultural norms allow for rapid adoption of new technology, a population crisis is emerging as young people are no longer having relationships.

The Independent reports:

“Some men claimed they “find women scary” as a poll found that around 31% of people aged 18 to 34 from the island nation say they are virgins.”

One Japanese woman said, “I think a lot of men just cannot be bothered. They can watch porn on the internet and get sexual satisfaction that way.”

We are literally becoming addicted to our technology and the distraction that it brings. Every time we see the glowing red indicator on our Facebook page, our brain releases a neurotransmitter called dopamine.

Dopamine is a central part of the reward center in the brain. It tells us, “Ok, this act (eating food, sex, achieving a goal) brought pleasure, do it again”.

The Guardian reported on the modern phenomenon of our dopamine systems becoming “hypersensitized”, making normal interactions and natural human activities less engaging:

What’s more, our 21st-century world is so heavily baited with cues and stimuli – from stealthy marketing to junk food, not to mention the nagging lure of online life – that it appears to be rigging our dopamine systems to become “hypersensitised”.

Big Tech has capitalized on this mind-hack.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72553/human-brains-rewired-in-tech-age-big-tech-capitalizes-on-hypersensitized-dopamine.html

Notable: Jeff Sessions sides with William Barr about 'spying'.

Jeff Sessions sides with William Barr about 'spying'

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions has picked a side in the "spying" debate. At the SALT conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Sessions was asked to respond to FBI Director Christopher Wray disputing Attorney General William Barr's use of the word "spying" to describe surveillance of President Trump's 2016 campaign. "I think Chris Wray — didn't he say that's one way of saying it? He wouldn't have said it that way," Sessions said. "I think that 'spying' is a perfectly good word."

On Tuesday, Wray testified to a budget panel that would not use the word. "That’s not the term I would use," Wray testified. "To me the key question is making sure it's done by the book, consistent with our lawful authorities. That's the key question; different people use different colloquial phrases." The debate over the term began at a hearing last month when Barr said "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign. He clarified that he hasn't proven there was any wrongdoing and is looking into alleged misconduct within in the Justice Department and FBI, but his "spying" declaration riled Democrats and others.

At a Democratic retreat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Barr went "off the rails." Former FBI Director James Comey, who led the bureau when it opened its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, said "the FBI doesn’t spy, the FBI investigates." Following revelations that the FBI sent an undercover agent to meet with George Papadopoulos in London in 2016, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper conceded that what the FBI had been doing “meets the dictionary definition of spying." Sessions also noted that FBI's use of undercover agents could be considered spying, adding that he wants to see more facts come out. Sessions was participating in a panel alongside former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is a former federal prosecutor. He offered his take on the debate, saying, "There's legal spying and illegal spying — but both are spying."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jeff-sessions-sides-with-barr-about-spying

Notable: US suspends effort to retrieve war dead from North Korea.

US suspends effort to retrieve war dead from North Korea

The US has halted efforts to retrieve the remains of its troops killed during the Korean War amid a breakdown in communication with North Korea.

North Korea last year handed over the remains of more than 50 US servicemen killed in the 1950-1953 conflict.

It was a sign of improved relations between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

But the Pentagon on Wednesday said the programme had been halted following a failed summit between the two leaders.

Some 36,000 American soldiers died during the Korean War and the US says more than 7,700 remain unaccounted for.

Around 5,300 of these soldiers were lost in North Korea.

The joint effort to return the bodies of US soldiers marked the partial fulfilment of an agreement reached between Trump and Kim during their historic first meeting in Singapore in 2018.

Trump: First Korean War remains identified

But communications halted following a second summit in Vietnam this year in which the leaders failed to make progress in talks over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

Chuck Prichard, a spokesman for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), said on Wednesday that North Korean officials had not communicated with the agency since the February summit.

"As a result, our efforts to communicate with the Korean People's Army regarding the possible resumption of joint recovery operations for 2019 has been suspended," he said in a statement.

"We have reached the point where we can no longer effectively plan, coordinate, and conduct field operations" with North Korea.

Kim open to talks if US has 'right attitude'

Kim accuses US of 'bad faith' in Hanoi

Amid the breakdown in communication between the countries, Pyongyang tested several short-range missiles on Saturday.

South Korea said the missiles were fired from the Hodo peninsula in the east of the country in the first weapons test since the Hanoi Summit.

Image copyright Planet/Handout via Reuters

Following the launch, Trump tweeted that he believed Kim “realizes the great economic potential of North Korea, & will do nothing to interfere or end it.”

"He also knows that I am with him and does not want to break his promise to me," he wrote.

South Korea announced on Tuesday that Trump was supporting its plan to provide humanitarian food aid to North Korea amid reports that it had suffered its worst harvest in decades, leading to chronic food shortages.

In a 35-minute phone call, Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in discussed ways to continue dialogue with North Korea in spite of the weapons test, the South Korean presidency said in a statement.

"President Trump assessed that South Korea's food provision to North Korea as a humanitarian effort will be a very timely and positive measure and he supported this," it said.

SOURCE

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48208686

Notable: GOP senator says deep state investigation will find 'all roads lead to Comey'.

GOP senator says deep state investigation will find 'all roads lead to Comey'

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday warned former FBI Director James Comey that he could end up at the center of a criminal conspiracy to undermine President Trump’s 2016 campaign. "He's worried, and he should be, that Mr. Barr … is going to look further into the genesis of the investigation of the Trump campaign,” Kennedy said during an appearance on “America’s Newsroom.” “I think they’re going to find that all roads lead to Mr. Comey.”

Since being fired by Trump in 2017, Comey has been a vocal critic of the president, insisting he was removed because the department, under his watch, opened an investigation into possible contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians seeking to influence the election.

During congressional testimony earlier this month, Attorney General William Barr said he believes that investigation was sparked by illegal spying done by officials in the top levels of the FBI. “I don’t know what he’s talking about,” Comey told "CBS This Morning." “The FBI doesn’t spy, the FBI investigates. We investigated a very serious allegation that Americans might be hooked up with the Russian effort to attack our democracy. The Republicans need to breathe into a paper bag.” Kennedy said he and his GOP colleagues in the Senate are breathing just fine. “It’s clear to most Americans that Mr. Comey is not and never was a law enforcement professional. He’s just a hack politician,” Kennedy said.

The president has repeatedly referred to Comey as a “liar” and a “leaker” who should be prosecuted for abusing his power at one of the country’s most powerful law enforcement agencies. Comey often attacks Trump personally, saying he is unfit for office and should be removed. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times Comey wrote Trump’s selfishness was “eating the souls” of otherwise good officials, such as Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Kennedy said Comey is likely to be discovered as the driving force behind that push — one that will have a lasting impact on the bureau and the American public’s trust in its political impartiality. “Why he did what he did I don’t know,” he said. “But it is breathtaking to the extent that he has hurt the FBI … and we need to work hard to get their reputation back thanks to Mr. Comey’s tarnishing of that agency.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-kennedy-says-deep-state-investigation-will-find-all-roads-lead-to-comey

Notable: Times healthcare reporter dies.

Notable death

https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/1126206857696223233?s=19

Notable: VW introduces EV Hatchback in $34 billion plan to take down Tesla.

VW Introduces EV Hatchback In $34 Billion Plan To Take Down Tesla

(say buh-bye TSLA)

With Tesla already facing stiff competition from high end retailers like Audi and Jaguar - both of whom have introduced luxury performance electric vehicles – Volkswagen is now posing an additional threat that could impact middle market buyers of Tesla's Model 3.

In fact, Volkswagen has invested $34 billion in a strategy to try and take down Tesla as the leader in electric vehicles, according to Bloomberg. The company is now taking €1000 deposits for its new ID.3 hatchback, which Volkswagen is hoping will be the electric successor to its iconic Beetle. The vehicle will start at less than €30,000, which is about the same price as the diesel variant of its Golf hatchback.

VW sales chief Juergen Stackmann said recently:

“We are not playing. This is the car to beat for the future, for all our competitors.”

The ID.3 marks the beginning of a roll out of more than 20 battery powered models over the coming years for Volkswagen. Their target is to sell more than 1 million electric cars annually by 2025 and the company's effort will undoubtedly continue to stoke the fire of competition in electric vehicles. Unlike Tesla, profitability remains paramount for VW. Stackmann continued, saying that VW's EVs “must make money.”

The introduction of the ID.3 comes on the precipice of electric vehicles breaking through to the mass market, which still hasn’t happened in full yet.

VW is offering a special edition of the vehicle, limited to 30,000 vehicles and inclusive of a year of free charging at certain stations. Reservations have been opened for customers in 29 countries across Europe, including Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. The car will be officially unveiled in September, and Stackmann expects the company reservation book to be full ahead of the event.

The first "limited-edition" run of the vehicle will cost less than €40,000 and have a range of ~260 miles. The basic version will have a range of ~180 miles and the top-of-the-line model will have a range ~330 miles.

Tesla has tacitly acknowledged the rivalry, sending an email to prospective German customers on Wednesday reminding them that its Model S and Model X both have the best range of electric cars in production. The assembly of the ID.3 will start later this year and first deliveries are planned for mid 2020. The company is targeting 100,000 sales per year of the new model.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-08/we-are-not-playing-vw-introduces-ev-hatchback-34-billion-plan-take-down-tesla

See this:

Porsche Fined $599 Million for Its Role in Volkswagen Diesel-gate Scandal

Porsche never developed its own diesel engines but was fined for its lack of oversight in using dirty VW powerplants in the Macan, Panamera, and Cayenne.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/27874/porsche-fined-599-million-for-its-role-in-volkswagen-dieselgate-scandal

and this

Elon Musk Confirms He Bought $25 Million in Tesla Stock Last Week

https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-tesla-stock-buy-51557202259

Notable: China ramps up crude oil imports despite Washington’s clampdown on Iran.

China ramps up crude oil imports despite Washington’s clampdown on Iran

Oil imports by China unexpectedly surged in April to a record despite refinery maintenance outages and tepid domestic fuel demand, according to data from the Chinese General Administration of Customs.

Imports amounted to 43.73 million tons of crude or 10.64 million barrels per day (bpd), customs data showed. That compared with 9.26 million bpd in March and was up 11 percent from the April 2018 level, according to Reuters calculations.

“The crude imports exceeded our expectations as both domestic refinery production and margins do not appear to support such high volumes of purchases,” said Wang Zhao, head of crude oil research at Sublime China Information.

“We may see stockpiles rising as state-run refiners pre-stocked supplies in April from Iran and the United States anticipating the impact of sanctions,” he added.

Data from Refinitiv showed that China’s crude oil imports from Iran rose to 24 million barrels or about 800,000 bpd in April, which is the highest level since August. The increase came as a result of buyers rushing in shipments before the US sanctions waiver deadline of early May.

https://www.rt.com/business/458714-china-oil-iran-sanctions/

Notable: DOJ inspector general 'homing in on' FBI’s use of unverified Steele dossier.

DOJ inspector general 'homing in on' FBI’s use of unverified Steele dossier

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating the FBI’s reliance on the unverified dossier produced by British ex-spy Christopher Steele in the surveillance of a Trump campaign associate “despite questions about [Steele’s] credibility." Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal reports Horowitz “is homing in on” and “has been asking witnesses about” the FBI’s “treatment of information” provided by Steele, described as a “key source”, who was used to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page. This is part of Horowitz’s broad investigation into alleged FISA abuse and more. Steele’s dossier was funded in part by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign through the Perkins Coie law firm and opposition research group Fusion GPS, which had reached out to and contracted Steele.

The new Wall Street Journal report says the inspector general’s office “has been asking why the FBI continued to cite Steele as a credible source in the renewal applications.” And a specific focus of Horowitz’s team is apparently “a news report cited extensively in the [FISA] applications that appeared to bolster Steele’s credibility… [which] said U.S. intelligence officials were investigating allegations similar to those Steele had raised.” The “news report” was written by Yahoo News journalist Michael Isikoff, who said he was stunned when he learned that his September 2016 article for Yahoo News was used in the FISA applications targeting Carter Page to bolster Steele’s credibility, despite his source being Steele himself. Iskoff said “it’s self-referential” and “it seems a little odd that they would cite the Yahoo News story about the matter they are investigating themselves based on the same material that had been separately presented to the FBI.” Isikoff personally met with Steele in person in September 2016. Also at the meeting was Isikoff’s “old friend” Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS. The three of them talked about Trump and Russia and Steele provided him with some of his research. Isikoff now admits that everyone should have been more cautious about Steele’s information. “I think it’s fair to say that all of us should have approached this, in retrospect, with more skepticism, particularly when we didn’t know where it was coming from,” Isikoff said. “We knew that Steele compiled it, but that Steele did not hear these allegations himself. Somebody else heard them from others and then passed them along. That’s thirdhand stuff, which is not usually the kind you want for publishing.”

In the FISA renewal applications, which spanned until June 2017, the FBI continued to insist that it didn’t think Steele was Isikoff’s source even though Steele himself had said that he was by the spring of 2017. The Wall Street Journal report says “investigators have also asked about an internal FBI evaluation of Steele’s credibility that found his reporting had been ‘minimally corroborated’ even as it also said he had provided information ‘of value’ to the U.S. intelligence community.” The report says “the evaluation was reflected in a ‘human source validation report’ written by a unit of the FBI after the bureau cut off its relationship with Steele in October 2016… because of his disclosures to the media about his work for the FBI.” Heavily redacted FBI records unearthed through Freedom of Information Act litigation in 2018 show that Steele was cut off as a confidential human source because of his improper disclosures to third parties and that his “handling agent advised [Steele] that [Confidential Human Source] was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI.”

According to a New York Times report from April, the FBI reached out to some of Steele’s foreign sources in an attempt to determine their credibility, and as early as January 2017 agents had reportedly concluded that some of the dossier’s contents may have been based upon “rumors and hearsay” which were “passed from source to source.” The agents believed that some of Steele’s information may have even been based upon “Russian disinformation.” For its part, Fusion GPS told the Washington Examiner that it stands by Steele’s dossier, claiming that “to our knowledge, nothing in the Steele memoranda has been disproven.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-homing-in-on-fbis-use-of-unverified-steele-dossier

Notable: Nashville Flipped star Troy Shafer dies in his sleep at age 38.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7007503/Nashville-Flipped-star-Troy-Shafer-dies-sleep-age-38.html

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Getting ready to leave for one of my favorite places, the Florida Panhandle…"

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126207770783621121

Notable: Moment of deadly suicide blast in Pakistan’s Lahore caught on CCTV.

Moment of deadly suicide blast in Pakistan’s Lahore caught on CCTV

CCTV footage has emerged showing the suspected suicide bomber and the very moment of the deadly blast that killed 10 and injured over 20 near a Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore.

The explosion rocked the second largest city of Pakistan on Wednesday, a day after the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The suspect targeted a police checkpoint near the major Sufi shrine.

“Police was the prime target in this attack. We are collecting forensic evidences to ascertain the nature of the blast,” deputy inspector general of Lahore police, Ashfaq Khan, said.

The moment of the blast was captured on several CCTV cameras and footage emerged some hours after the attack that killed 10 people, including four police officers, and injured at least 23.

The videos show a heavily clothed man, dressed in black, approaching the police van moments before the blast. Prior to that, the man was spotted wandering around the location, while holding one of his hands to his chest.

The suspect is believed to be a 15-year-old, according to Pakistani authorities. The Pakistan-based branch of the Taliban, the Hizbul Ahrar militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack, insisting that it was carried out when there were no civilians near the police.

https://www.rt.com/news/458755-lahore-suicide-blast-video/

Notable: Rotherham: 40 arrested in latest child sex abuse probe.

Rotherham: 40 Arrested in Latest Child Sex Abuse Probe

Police have arrested 40 suspects over the last two months in relation to a probe into allegations of serious child sex abuse in Rotherham, detectives have said.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed the two women and 38 men from Sheffield, Rotherham, Leeds, Dewsbury and Maidstone were questioned over historic sexual abuse and exploitation of victims as young as 11, alleged to have taken place between 1997 and 2015.

All suspects arrested or interviewed since March in relation to the NCA probe have been released or bailed pending further enquiries, detectives said in a press release.

Spokesman Carl Vessey-Baitson said: “Arresting such a large number of individuals, as part of one Stovewood sub-operation, shows our desire to listen to victims and bring offenders to justice is not wavering.

“Stovewood is a challenging and complex investigation, with victims and survivors reliving abuse that took place many years ago.

“To date we have engaged with over 410 victims and survivors and have arrested or interviewed by appointment 94 suspects, meaning this is the largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual abuse and exploitation ever undertaken in the UK.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/08/rotherham-40-arrested-abuse-probe/

Notable: Passenger plane skids off runway in Myanmar, breaks into three.

Passenger plane skids off runway in Myanmar, breaks into three

A Biman Airlines’ Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft has skidded off the runway at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport, losing its wings and breaking into three parts. Pilots were attempting to land as the accident occurred.

Although conflicting reports exist, a Biman Airlines spokesman told Bangladeshi news site BDnews that four of the 33 people on board were injured, including the pilot.

Photos shared on social media show the extent of the wreck.

The plane was landing at Yangon Airport when the accident took place, after flying from Bangladesh’s Dhaka-Srahjalal International Airport. Weather conditions were poor, and a Biman airlines spokesman told the Daily Star that this led to the crash.

The plane belonged to Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the flag carrier of Bangladesh. Aside from an attempted hijacking in February, the airline has not suffered any accidents or safety incidents in over a decade.

Yangon Airport has been closed following the crash, and incoming flights have been redirected.

The accident comes three days after a Sukhoi Superjet-100 crash landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport and burst into a fireball. The hard landing and ensuing blaze killed 41 of the 78 people on board.

https://www.rt.com/news/458733-myanmar-bangladesh-biman-runway-crash/

Notable: Kentucky policy allowed social workers to take kids using judges' pre-signed signatures on blank documents.

Kentucky policy allowed social workers to take kids using judges' pre-signed signatures on blank documents

The practice has been called 'a gross miscarriage of justice'

Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services has come under scrutiny for allowing social workers to take children from homes using blank emergency custody orders pre-signed by judges. The agency reportedly scrapped the policy after numerous complaints, but critics say the practice was illegal from the get-go and "a gross miscarriage of justice."

What are the details?

An expose by WDRB-TV revealed the practice in March, reporting that while state and local officials admitted the system wasn't ideal, it was commonplace protocol on weekends or when a judge had gone home for the day when social workers were concerned about abuse or neglect allegations.

Yet, affected families, attorneys, and even some judges have cried foul, saying the policy was against Kentucky law — likening it to police raiding a home with a blank search warrant. In fact, social workers are accused of just that: Taking kids with blank forms bearing photocopied signatures, filling out the documents later, and leaving parents in the dark until a hearing three days after the children are removed from a home.

Chief Jefferson District Court Judge Anne Haynie acknowledged it was policy but told the outlet that while the law prohibits children from being removed on a "verbal order," pre-signed orders are not illegal. She explained that there are safeguards in place; for instance, social workers are required to call a judge and explain the scenario during a recorded conversation before a jurist gives the go-ahead to remove a child from a guardian's custody.

Haynie also noted that a Home of the Innocents employee is "present with the law enforcement officer and/or cabinet worker" during such a call. The Home of the Innocents is a nonprofit organization based in Louisville. It is unclear what — if any — authority or weigh-in the nonprofit's employees had in joining the calls.

A spokeswoman from the state's Administrative Office of the Courts told TheBlaze in an email that "the court system does not have a contract with the Home of the Innocents." Regardless, "copies of blank orders with signatures from Jefferson District Court judges were left at the Home of the Innocents … and filled in by cabinet workers," WDRB reported.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/kentucky-policy-allowed-social-workers-to-take-kids-using-judges-pre-signed-signatures-on-blank-documents

Notable: Canadian Fighter jets scrambled over Prairies for NATO exercise.

Canadian Fighter jets scrambled over Prairies for NATO exercise

https://larongenow.com/2019/05/08/fighter-jets-scrambled-over-prairies-for-exercise/

Notable: These latest sanctions are about Pinchuk?

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These latest sanctions are about Pinchuk.

Iran-Ukraine-Pinchuk-Clintons

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/24/hillary-clinton-runs-white-house-and-row-over-ukrainian-benefactors-trade-322253.html

Notable: Elizabeth Warren took 2018 donations from opioid moguls she denounced.

Elizabeth Warren took 2018 donations from opioid moguls she denounced

Presidential hopeful Rep. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will return money she accepted from a relative of a top opioid manufacturer for her 2018 Senate reelection campaign, according to a new report. Warren will return $2,500 in donations she received from Beverly Sackler, who was married to Purdue Pharma owner Raymond Sackler, and donate the funds to charity, an aide for Warren told Politico Tuesday. The aide did not provide comment when pressed which charity Warren had selected. She also will return contributions from other members of the Sackler family that were given during her 2012 Senate campaign. Altogether, $4,500 will be given back to charity.

A day after Politico inquired about the donation, Warren unveiled an updated proposal known as the CARE Act to spend $100 billion over the next 10 years to fight the opioid crisis. “This crisis has been driven by greed, pure and simple. If you don’t believe that, just look at the Sackler family,” Warren said in a Medium post Wednesday. She is also urging to pass her Corporate Executive Accountability Act, which would put pharmaceutical executives behind bars if they intentionally “hurt people through criminal negligence.” “That’s the America we deserve. An America where we take care of each other, where health care for every person who needs it matters more than rich families shielding their wealth,” Warren said. “An America where when people like the Sacklers destroy millions of lives to make money, they don’t get museum wings named after them, they go to jail.”

A spokesman for the Sackler family defended Beverly Sackler’s donation and said the family was open to a discussion with Warren about the issue and the company’s origins. “Beverly Sackler is well into her 90s and denigrating her personal donation, made with the best intentions, can serve no proper political purpose,” a spokesperson for the Sackler family said in a statement, according to Politico. “We would welcome a genuine dialogue with the senator that’s fact-based, as the facts clearly demonstrate that the company started by Beverly’s family has for decades been the industry leader in combating opioid abuse while providing products essential for the treatment of serious chronic pain.”

Other 2020 Democratic candidates have also accepted money from Sackler, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elizabeth-warren-took-2018-donations-from-opioid-moguls-she-denounced

Notable: Brennan attacks POTUS over released tax documents.

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Viciously Attacks Trump as “Dishonest and Unethical” Following NYT Release of Trump Tax Docs

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Viciously Attacks Trump as “Dishonest and Unethical” Following NYT Release of Trump Tax Docs

Cristina Laila by Cristina Laila May 8, 2019

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John Brennan knows he is in trouble for his role in Spygate.

Former CIA Director John Brennan jumped into the fray Wednesday and viciously attacked President Trump following the leak of his tax documents to the New York Times.

Brennan accused Trump of hoodwinking Americans (only the so-called good Americans) with his “dishonest and unethical self promotion.”

John Brennan labeled the remaining Trump followers as “racists, white supremacists, misogynists and political sycophants.”

The New York Times obtained 10 years of Donald Trump’s tax documents from his federal income tax returns — for the years 1985 – 1994 and released the docs Tuesday evening.

The Times reported that Donald Trump’s core businesses (hotels, apartment buildings and casinos) took a $1.17 billion loss. Big deal, he’s in the real estate business which fluctuates all the time and real estate developers often report losses as a type of tax shelter.

The Times also said that Trump didn’t pay federal income taxes for 8-10 years — of course this is normal for business owners as they can roll their losses over (net operating loss), but the stupid liberals don’t understand how real estate is leveraged, the concept of depreciation or how loans work.

“It is unconscionable that Mr. Trump’s dishonest & unethical self promotion has been able to hoodwink so many good Americans who are not among the racists, white supremacists, misogynists & political sycophants following him for amoral leadership,” Brennan said linking to the New York Times article on Trump’s tax docs.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-viciously-attacks-trump-as-dishonest-and-unethical-following-nyt-release-of-trump-tax-docs/